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Word: winter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surprisingly pleasant. With one exception, its verse is successful in its relative simplicity, free from many of the pretensions which so often encumber undergraduate poetry. Its poems deal mainly with the brilliance of love and the relative uselessness of pedantry, a happy thought for the tag end of winter...

Author: By Peter E. Quint, | Title: Identity | 2/20/1959 | See Source »

...this time by Sandy Kaye, is less objectionable than Identity's previous double page panoramas, probably because it is printed in large, easily readable type, and doesn't have to look like a spruce tree unless you really want it to. The poetry is competent, a description of a winter scene with assorted animals, and the images are crisp and economically executed...

Author: By Peter E. Quint, | Title: Identity | 2/20/1959 | See Source »

...first time in five years the Crimson sextet faces the strong possibility of no invitation to the post-season NCAA playoffs to be held three weeks hence at Troy, N.Y. A more difficult question is who will get the nod, for this winter's Eastern intercollegiate hockey has been the wackiest in recent years...

Author: By John R.adler, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 2/20/1959 | See Source »

Regarding your reproduction of Goldberg's Summer House: I looked for the summer house, winter house, then just any house, but failing to find one played the game of hidden pictures instead. I was rewarded to find a masked thug, Dick Tracy, okra, and a hound dog baying at the moon while bleeding from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 16, 1959 | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

Author Johnson's novel covers the last summer of Skipton's life. A party of English tourists comes to Bruges, and Skipton sets out to fleece them for his winter wear. He finds a whore for one of the men and snob delights for the woman in the party; for both sexes he arranges a Pigalle-type "spectacle." But by summer's end Skipton has himself been swindled out of what little money remains to him: his sole consolation is that death is close enough to save him from the agonies of another winter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unholy Terror | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

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