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Word: ture (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though the director has caught some visual excitement in Paris, his camera is mostly cold and apathetic. But the pic ture is blessed with urbane Gallic polish, some satiric set pieces, and another en gaging performance by Actor Gabin, who at 55 is still the No. 1 male box-office draw of French films...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 31, 1959 | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

Fear, inhibition and conformity operate primarily by determining what questions we will decide to ask, not what answers we will give. It is very easy, for example, to decide not to lec- ture on Russia. If you tell yourself that you don't know about Russia, or that it is not pertinent in this course, your personal integrity is never at stake. But once you decide to investigate Russia with your students, it is much harder to lie to them without losing your self-respect...

Author: By Christopher Jencks, | Title: Portrayal of American Colleges Explains 'Intellectual Specialists' | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

...puzzled by the reference in your kindly review of Our Man in Havana to my slipping in a cruel] pointless carica ture of a dumb U.S. businessman." I can't remember any such character...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 10, 1958 | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

Could a splurge in car buying put strong pressure on raw material prices? Says Norman B. Ture, staff economist of the Joint Economic Committee: "I don't see it. Say autos go up to 6,000,000. That won't be enough to exert real pressure on steel, aluminum, glass or rubber capacity. So a good strong demand in autos will not spread great demand pressures through the economy." And just as there are ample materials, so is there still an ample labor supply to keep a brake on wages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INFLATION FEARS: State of Mind v. State of Facts | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

...becomes absorbed in the hothouse flush of the sanatorium where almost everyone seems young and beautiful because so few live long enough to grow old and ugly. He loves the rhythms of their life, the fevered excitements followed by exhausted pauses; he loves their talk with its curious mix ture of simple fun and cruel cynicism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Unattainable | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

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