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Word: toured (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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MARY MARTIN: HELLO, DOLLY! ROUND THE WORLD (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Performer Martin narrates a color camera report on the Tokyo, Viet Nam and London tour of Hello, Dolly! including some footage of Good Queen Bess II greeting Producer David Merrick and his cast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Feb. 4, 1966 | 2/4/1966 | See Source »

...than 100,000 men a year were called, only a small percentage of the total eligible to serve. Deferments, for school or for skill, were easy to get. American youngsters regarded the draft as either a remote threat or, at worst, a necessary chore that might produce a rewarding tour of duty overseas (where some 46% of all U.S. soldiers are now stationed) or enable them to acquire a skill that would later be useful in civilian life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE NEW DEMANDS OF THE DRAFT | 2/4/1966 | See Source »

Anthony Burgess, also an English Catholic satirist, tells of a painful, three-year tour of duty on Gibraltar during and after the end of World War II. There he suffered not only the unrewarding frustrations of rear-echelon soldiering, but also the discovery-agonizing for a young man-that his vocation for music was, if not false, secondary to an untested talent for writing. The result might well have been a damp dollop of self-pity; A Vision of Battlements is anything but that. It is a high-spirited cadenza amid the brassy cacophony of war, played by a born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Virgil on the Rock | 2/4/1966 | See Source »

...best novels testify to his own obsession with the meaning or the meaninglessness of life, to his own quest for bearings along the ambiguous border between good and evil. The Comedians somehow reads as if Greene had temporarily given up the search and were merely conducting a guided tour past landmarks already found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Guided Tour of Greeneland | 1/28/1966 | See Source »

...minus costume-designed to give somnambulistic inevitability to the dreadful action. The hypnotic effect may not take in some readers who will be irritated by the tones of an adult careful not to use big words to a low-IQ child. Moreover, Fast's publishers call Torquemada a tour de force; it could also be a sleight of hand. How it is read probably depends on how much the reader knows of history, not excluding the history of Howard Fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fast Shuffle | 1/28/1966 | See Source »

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