Word: uses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...novels, Alfred felt that works like Joseph Andrews and Little Dorrit were good examples of the use of dramatic techniques. Whitman added, "we may have the students study operas of Mozart and Verdi...
...remained soaking for five hours while the whole village tried to think of a way to get him out. The young men were for pulling him out, but the elders, respecting his age, opposed the use of force. Finally, someone remembered that the only one with influence over the old man was his son. They went to see the son, and he suggested that he would use the village's telephone system and ask to speak to the old man. It worked. Lobster-red after his long soaking in the hot water...
...showing both the new and the old ways of life of Japanese women, accompanies this week's cover story (see FOREIGN NEWS). As a dramatic document of sociological change in one of the world's great nations, it is typical of TIME's frequent, unique use of color photography to provide an added dimension to journalism...
...hundreds of songs," Lehrer says. "Now that it's my living, I've stopped doing it. Then, if it was a lousy song, nobody cared. But when I started singing for money, it was a matter of deleting songs rather than adding them. I only write songs I can use professionally now, the other ideas are generally too personal or too offensive to use on the stage. By offensive, I don't mean dirty--people have this idea I write dirty songs--but some of this stuff just wouldn't go over with an audience...
...meantime, it's a great life. I don't use an alarm clock any more, work when I feel like it. In the past year I had fourteen weeks of night club work and fifteen or twenty concerts. As for the rest of the time, the record business is still mine and I've got to arrange all these engagements myself--I don't have an agent. My program is worked out now so that I can do a whole show myself--about twenty-six songs...