Search Details

Word: wishfully (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...windows, grappled with thugs and wrestled with wild animals in their lengthy pursuit of the evil Japanese Dr. Daka. Batman fell into cinematic and literary obscurity during the comic-book cleanup of the '50s (in 1954 Psychiatrist Fredric Wertham compared the relationship of Batman and Robin to "a wish dream of two homosexuals living together"). But in the Great Society, everyone lives better, and Batman and Robin have recently been rehabilitated into high-camp folk heroes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: The Return of Batman | 11/26/1965 | See Source »

Kahn argues that in order to survive we must jettison our indifference and our traditional biases. He sees the present as a period of transition to a more stable international order, in which escalation will be "the midwife of history." If we wish to influence the course of this transition and avoid nuclear war, we must learn to use carefully controlled violence--or threats of escalation--as a rational means of achieving our ends...

Author: By Rand K. Rosenblatt, | Title: On War and Violence, Real and Abstract | 11/24/1965 | See Source »

...right, and it is heartening that unreasonable men who run Oakland have been rebuffed by the court in their effort to bar the parade. But what has all this to do with ending the war? Winning legal duels with local biginigs hardly influences the national public opinion. Those who wish to change public opinion should attempt to prevent it from polarizing sharply on the war issue, for that would almost certainly see the bulk of the population rushing to the defense of Flag and Country. Marches and large demonstrations almost always aggravate division of opinion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Support of the March | 11/23/1965 | See Source »

Well, I do know, of course, and so does everybody else. Clay (or Muhammed Ali, if you wish) is on the threshhold of becoming the greatest heavyweight in the history of the ring. Floyd Patterson, Clay's opponent in Las Vegas tonight, will open the door just another crack. That's all; nothing more, nothing less...

Author: By Philip Ardery, | Title: The Rabbit Will Fall in Two In Tonight's Ring Rendezvous | 11/22/1965 | See Source »

Twitchedy, twatchedy, flippedy, flappedy, flong your own thong tong, snickety poo. Griff, graff, gobble, gobble, ghrrr, gar, gorrr, goo goo goo. Wap, wap, flaptrap, wonk wonk weee. Zap, zap, backtrack, zonk zonk zeee. Wish I may, wish I might have the wish I wish tonight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Memento Morey | 11/20/1965 | See Source »

Previous | 135 | 136 | 137 | 138 | 139 | 140 | 141 | 142 | 143 | 144 | 145 | 146 | 147 | 148 | 149 | 150 | 151 | 152 | 153 | 154 | 155 | Next