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Word: unwittingness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yes, there is a play surrounding Mr. Scott. It is not bad fun, either, since lively and emphatic family spats are going on almost all the time. However, except for Mr. Scott's setpiece, Comes a Day is badly contrived and badly phrased. Speed Lamkin wrote it, but he appears...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Comes a Day | 10/22/1958 | See Source »

After Long Silence is revealing in spite of its author, not because of him. Fitzgerald's "flaming youth'' was consciously breaking social taboos even when it did no more than kiss and pet. Novelist Gutwillig's off-beat generation takes its sinning much more casually, but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: All the Old Young Men | 5/19/1958 | See Source »

One of the hardest of all literary doors to force is the one that leads into the world of childhood. It is only fitting that the latest writer to try it is a mystery novelist. Shelley Smith's U.S. publisher is devoted to keeping her identity a mystery. But...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Know Thy Children | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

Even before the voice could offer telephone numbers for getting the name of a recommended physician, the pranksters were howling at the caller's consternation. And city health officials wore a slightly abashed look over their role as unwitting accomplices in setting up an epidemic gag.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hit Record | 4/21/1958 | See Source »

Sadly Derek sold his truck, bought some ledgers, and went back to work with his horse and cart. Said he, in a forthright and unwitting commentary that revealed much about what is wrong with Britain's economy and its laws for the protection of the entrenched: "If they work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Competitor | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

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