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Word: worsteds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Confi-Guide also features advice on concentrations, libraries, where to get help, freshman seminars, who Harvard's best and worst lecturers are and what the new Core Plan is all about. All this and more with pictures, cartoons, and articles from nearly a hundred students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: You Could Choose Your Courses Blind... Or You Could Read The Confi-Guide | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

...Buchwald, humorist, speaking at Boston's Emerson College: "Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 4, 1978 | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

...evil in Kennedy. His case for R.F.K.'s virtues-compassion, puritanical fair-mindedness, personal and professional decency, courage-is amply supported by word and deed and is thoroughly convincing. Difficulties arise because Schlesinger is not content to leave it at that. He must also find evil (at worst) or stupidity and incompetence (at best) in all those who opposed Bobby or who stood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Re-Creation of the Way It Was | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

...Algonquin Round Table, for example, could have given him wide recognition. Instead, he used its worst aspects: sincere feelings were despised, hard work was derided, and sobriety was practically outlawed. Mank, a promising second-string drama critic on the New York Times, became a full-time lush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bitter Wit | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

...recruit writers. The cronies he brought from New York largely established the funny, irreverent film style of the '30s. He wrote or collaborated on a score of scripts and had an uncredited influence on the structure and content of many other major films. But Hollywood also evoked the worst in him. During the Depression, Mankiewicz and his colleagues were earning $1,250 a week. Mank gambled it away, with as much disdain as if he had stolen it from his children's Monopoly set. "Hollywood money," explained his friend Charles MacArthur, "is something you throw off the ends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bitter Wit | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

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