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Word: thereness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jacques Natleau wisely chooses to use his camera as an omniscient narrator. Rather than expressing the attitude of one character, Natleau impartially examines all motivations, significantly lending the film ambiguity. In siding with neither the Christ nor the Pilate, he leaves the audience with the task of choosing the hero...

Author: By Margaret A. Armstrong, | Title: He Who Must Die | 10/13/1959 | See Source »

The occasion was not without its lighter moments. After the President had remarked there exist no symbols of a Master's office, newly-inaugurated John M. Bullitt '43 turned to the mural behind him and said: "We are surrounded by symbolisms." He quoted another Master as calling the painting "the...

Author: By Thomas M. Pepper, | Title: Quincy Gets Master at Inaugural Dinner | 10/13/1959 | See Source »

Hypnosis is a much misunderstood phenomenon. The layman tends to conceive of it in the most mystical terms, and there are many amateur Svengalis who, actually, know very little about what they are doing but are entranced with the notion that someone else is in their "power." In the wake...

Author: By Alice E. Kinzler, | Title: Researchers Investigate the Hypnotic State | 10/13/1959 | See Source »

But John Kieran, 67, used the 50 springs well; sportswriter, naturalist and radio fountain of knowledge (Information Please), he was born, raised and schooled in The Bronx (Fordham, cum laude, 1912), all told lived there for the better part of half a century. While few New Yorkers ever notice nature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wild Things in the City | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

The Eccentrics. With egotism their first article of faith, most of the Romantics were diary keepers; with the telephone yet to be invented, they were great letter writers. The letters and the diaries are Biographer Bigland's chief sources. Thus the reader can get detailed information on who was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mrs. Shelley Plain | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

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