Word: wickedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Queen Victoria, in whose reign Bagehot was writing, exclaimed: "Oh, the wicked man, to write such a story!" Elizabeth might feel the same way, for, as every loyal subject knows, the British Constitution cannot be understood by people who think it says exactly what it means. The monarch's...
Miracle in Milan. Italian Director Vittorio (The Bicycle Thief) De Sica's funny, exhilarating fantasy about a goodhearted youth in a wicked world (TIME, Dec. 17).
A list of rules for the conduct of actors and actresses gives an intimate glance at "life upon the wicked stage" as practiced on the old Mississippi show boats. The regulations included a "$5 fine for fishing off boat," and "Actresses must not go around scantily clad, because this is...
Miracle in Milan. Italian Director Vittorio (The Bicycle Thief) De Sica's funny, exhilarating fantasy about a goodhearted youth in a wicked world (TIME, Dec. 17).
In the first months after V-E Day, the Western allies in Germany, swallowing hard, bundled thousands of unwilling and sometimes struggling refugees from Communist domination into trains, and sent them back to death or slavery in Communist hands. The allies did this wicked thing to prolong the "honeymoon" with...