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Word: thinks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...think art should be shocking, necessarily," says Painter Paul Cadmus, "but it should be disturbing." Cadmus, who combines a steady hand with a jaundiced eye, had never failed to disturb people and earn a living by it, but his first exhibition of paintings in twelve years, which opened in a Manhattan gallery last week, made his earlier works seem almost sissified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sin in Frames | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...entertainment, the United Nations was shaping up as better than anything else on daytime television. Dramatically, the chief flaw was still the tendency of the opposing orators to repeat their arguments over & over again. As one of the Brooklyn teen-agers complained: "They just say what they think or what their country thinks, but they don't listen to anyone else. Once a person finishes talking, he goes to sleep already. He just listens to his own side and thinks he's right all the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Newer Than Baseball | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

Powerful, easygoing Pancho, who played mostly by ear when he was ruling the amateurs at Forest Hills, was learning the scales the hard way as a pro. But there was no reason to think the younger man could not learn by experience. At week's end in Richmond, Va. he finally took one from the old master...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: When It Rains, Eat Light | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...Jake had also learned about eating. When the schedule called for six or seven nights of consecutive play, he filled up on late-afternoon steaks and topped off with egg-nogs. But he cut down on the calories when there were off-nights ahead. Said Kramer: "I think I'll tell the fellows at Forest Hills, 'When it rains, eat light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: When It Rains, Eat Light | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...tighter rein on atomic energy appropriations. As for the farmer, Sawyer told a luncheon group in New Orleans' International House: "I don't hold with this idea of giving the farmer special treatment . . . No one has any idea how much the Brannan plan would cost. I think that's one place we could make big savings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Too Much Steam? | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

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