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Word: visual (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only a few years ago were constantly badgered ... for either libeling Soviet life or indulging in hothouse estheticism, have lately been awarded the highest honors." On this encouraging (but no longer valid) premise, he concludes: "Perhaps some day the present zeal for using the theater as a means for visual demonstration of copybook maxims (Soviet version) will pass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Comrade Windermere's Fan | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

Entertainment without the aid of visual stimulation also came under the sociologist's fire when he added that "If anything can be worse than Hollywood, it is the radio and its soap operas. The enervating effect of such goulash on the masses is too great even to be estimated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Zimmerman Hits Flynn, Chaplin in Second-Round Tirade at Filmdom | 12/19/1946 | See Source »

...course is not one in "remedial" reading, Perry emphasized, because there are few "visual difficulties" Involved. "The problem at college level is for the students to develop an aggressive and inquisitive attitude towant the reading matter and to develop reading as a study skill," he commented...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Large Reading Class Steps Up Speed Rate, Emphasizes Curiosity | 12/14/1946 | See Source »

...began last week the eighth of Lowell Mason's monthly "Inspirational Breakfasts." His purpose: to let Government workers escape at intervals from the daily routine of bureaucracy and join together "in a visual expression of the spiritual side of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Spiritual Breakfast | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

Trumbull's mortal remains lie only 30 feet from where I now sit. His ghost will haunt us both unless credit is given where it is due. Tell the world the visual record of The Battle of Princeton by General Washington's aide-de-camp is at Yale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 18, 1946 | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

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