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Word: unsung (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such preoccupation with the unsung tragedies and triumphs of the everyday and ordinary, painted in drab browns and greys, is typical of a growing school of young British realists. Says Smith: "There's got to be a revolution in painting. You can't paint like Picasso any longer, and you can't paint like the old masters. You've got to go back to living, and the things around you." In his own painting he sets himself a straightforward goal: "A bottle is a bottle. And it's quite different from a cucumber. I want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Heroes Every Day | 7/26/1954 | See Source »

Subtitled "The Literary Debris of Mitchel Hackney," Wallach's new one is especially funny because of its novel gimmick. Hackney, says Wallach, is one of the great unsung literati of our era, great because he managed to do everything years before it was done by the person we credit with doing it. Hackney, for instance, out Saroyaned Saroyan and out-Bellowed Saul Bellow, and did it first. "Gutenberg's Folly" is therefore a labor of love: dying from a surfeit of chopped liver canapes, Hackney willed Wallach his wife and his work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Hacks of Hackney | 4/29/1954 | See Source »

...Behind the Badge, which borrows techniques both from Dragnet and The Big Story, may develop into a close rival. Badge skillfully adds a dash of sex to its sadism, and makes the dose palatable to the squeamish with a high-sounding dedication to such unsung public servants as probation officers, women wardens, youth counselors and tracers of missing persons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Dead on Arrival | 1/25/1954 | See Source »

Nixon's earnest, unsung diligence has won him a lot of respect, even among people who not long ago were damning or disparaging him. Last week the Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser, once ferociously anti-Nixon though pro-Ike, editorially conceded it might have been wrong in thinking that the country would get "awfullv tired" of the "mawkish" and "disagreeably pushing" Vice President: "Some better stuff in Nixon than we recognized took command . . . With iron discipline, he seems to have dedicated himself to quiet, patient and unseen aid and comfort to his chief and his party . . . Perhaps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE VICE PRESIDENCY: Let Dick Do It | 7/20/1953 | See Source »

...seeded Seton Hall's fabulous Walter Dukes, the skyscraper (6 ft. 11 in.) Negro center who paced his team to a major-college record of 27 straight victories. Arrayed against Dukes & Co. was the sentimental underdog, St. John's of Brooklyn, unseeded but not unsung after scoring three straight upsets over St. Louis, La Salle and Duquesne to reach the final round...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: One-Man Show | 3/23/1953 | See Source »

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