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Word: worke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...through the work of the J.P.L. that we are now just beginning truly to explore our solar system, and through this exploration we will come to understand the uniqueness of our own earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 31, 1979 | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

...years audiences have regarded Peter Pan as child's play. In fact, the work now enchanting a new generation on Broadway is not fantasy but tragedy. Nor is it, as the subtitle declares, about a "boy who wouldn't grow up." It is about a man who couldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Lost Man | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

LOOKING FOR WORK...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Flibbertigibbet | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

Such in-joking helps distinguish Looking for Work from the 8 trillion or so recent novels about young women trying to find themselves. The chief point of the exercise seems to be fun. No matter how much she protests, Salley is a confirmed flibbertigibbet, her name itself an amusingly pointless steal from a poem by Yeats ("Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet"). Life has given her every advantage, including just the right number of trendy neuroses. Though she claims to spend a large portion of her story job hunting, what she really looks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Flibbertigibbet | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

What is wrong with this picture? Not quite enough to work up a lather over Salley's alleged miseries. Because Salley tells her own story, it is impossible to say how seriously Cheever wants her to be taken. The only real point of suspense in the book is a foregone conclusion: when the right job comes along, Salley gets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Flibbertigibbet | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

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