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Word: wickedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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As a sophisticated fairy tale, Time Remembered is sheer Molnár-and perhaps not quite sheer enough in itself. It has been attractively fairy-tailored: imaginative Oliver Smith sets, chic Miles White costumes, pretty Vernon Duke background music. And Anouilh has given it good writing enough, and elegant mannerism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Nov. 25, 1957 | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

Working from a mound that is only 46 ft. from the plate, softball pitchers boast much the same repertory as their big-league counterparts. Even though they are limited to an underhand delivery, their curves and fastballs blaze in so fast that the best batters have no time to swing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Soft Series | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

Purely Christian. Founder of this remarkable church was a Congregational pastor from Boston, the Rev. Edward Norris Kirk, whose love of "gay, wicked, learned, royal Paris" was mixed with grim Yankee misgivings: "One may live in Paris and feel that he is in a world without souls." Bent on seeing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: U.S. Parish in Paris | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

Today Paris is still gay, wicked and learned, and the spirit in which the American Church ministers to its wandering U.S. souls remains the same as it was in 1857. There is little likelihood that either will change. As Pastor Emeritus Cochran told parishioners last week: "With rejoicing and thanksgiving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: U.S. Parish in Paris | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

To his 19 papers, Newsman Fred Sparks cabled an open letter to Dictator Mao Tse-tung, plaintively seeking entry: "I am a worker, not a capitalist . . . I am in trouble because of my expense account . . . If I go back home now without completing my assignment to cover Inside Communist China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Slow Boat to China | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

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