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Word: true (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have. We would much rather pretend that we can go on forever, just the way we are now. And that's the whole philosophy of a country where no one ever really dies. We ignore it. We're going to solve everything, do everything, live forever. It's not true. It's simply not true. But we have lost touch with the element of life that conditions life, that creates life. We exist in a series of self-created cliches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: American Dreamers | 10/13/1977 | See Source »

...long as Trevor-Roper remains within the realm of these Backhousian mysteries, his truth about the method to the madness of the hermit of Peking rings true. In this context, the author's contention that Backhouse spent his life imaginatively substituting himself for those who were intimate with Verlaine, Lord Rosebery, the Empress Dowager, and other sources of power, is convincing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mysteries of History | 10/12/1977 | See Source »

...benefit of the air waves. "I Got The News" uses graceful vocal harmony and some fine guitar leads with the album's usual set of jazz instruments to weave a fluent, atriking cut. "Peg" is that cute tune to which all the top-fortyettes will bump. Peg," despite its true quality, approaches the barrier between easy-listening-jazz and disco. The "Disco Dan" concept puts a damper on the album, raising doubts as to whether or not this band will in fact "die behind the wheel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Something Old, Something New | 10/11/1977 | See Source »

...princess, Queen Elizabeth's sister Margaret has never had much luck with fairy-tale romances. Duty-bound to give up her true love, Group Captain Peter Townsend, she settled for Antony Armstrong-Jones, and is now legally separated. According to Margaret's friends, quoted in the British weekly Woman's Own, the match with Jones came about because Margaret received a letter from Townsend announcing his plans to marry another. "That evening, I became engaged to Tony. It was no coincidence," Margaret told her friends. She has also revealed her doubts about remarrying: "It would probably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 10, 1977 | 10/10/1977 | See Source »

...previously come across as a rather abrasive ninny, suddenly becomes a figure of some substance and courage. Redgrave's Julia-who is generally shortchanged by the film-metamorphoses into a complete revolutionary; her calm voice and flaming eyes convey both the serenity and passion of the true believer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Convoluted Memoir of the '30s | 10/10/1977 | See Source »

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