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Word: tes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...taste and whatever else he fancied in his Boston Herald and, later, Boston Globe columns. Proud of his image as a professional snob-he proclaimed the common man an "ill-clad, ill-spoken hooligan"-Frazier brought his own hot dogs to baseball games and named among his bêtes noires white socks ("Shoot 'em on sight. As bad as turtlenecks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 24, 1974 | 6/24/1974 | See Source »

...witness who contradicts a defendant must be backed by a second witness or by other evidence. As a result, "a man can be convicted merely on the oath of another man," says Boston Defense Lawyer Paul T. Smith. "That's tragic. For instance [Presidential Lawyer Herbert] Kalmbach has tes tified in direct contradiction to [Bebe] Rebozo on the disposition of that $100,000 Hughes donation. One of them is lying. Basically, the prosecutor can simply decide which one to prosecute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: The Trouble with Lying | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

Gone, for example, are those interminable tête-à-têtes about the creation of the world, etc., between God and Jesus, and between God and Adam. Gone too are most of the lofty jawboning sessions with angels who tend to sound like an unfortunate blend of Dean Rusk and Charlton Heston. Collier skips the Creation entirely, as well as the war in heaven (in fact, most of Books III, VI, VII, VIII, X, XI), except for the fall of Satan's defeated forces toward hell. Where it suits his purposes, though, he uses Milton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: All About Eve | 6/25/1973 | See Source »

...there will be nothing to equal the splendor the French lavished within the past year on the visits of Leonid Brezhnev and Queen Elizabeth. Indeed, the only glitter will come from a modest gala in the Elysée Palace's gilt-and-tapestry Salle des Fêtes on Thursday night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMON MARKET: The Summit: Details in Place of Dreams | 10/23/1972 | See Source »

...Soldat, piquant, freeze-dried chamber music for seven players. Works like Pulcinella (1920) and The Fairy's Kiss (1928), based on themes of Pergolesi and Tchaikovsky, crowned Stravinsky's neoclassical shift away from the Dionysian revels of his youth. Oedipus Rex (1927) and Apollon Musagètes (1928) eloquently confirmed not only a new sobriety and austerity but also a new allegiance to the Apollonian ideal of lucidity and order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Rightness of His Wrongs | 4/19/1971 | See Source »

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