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Word: wickedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Coward was the first laureate of the beautiful brittle people. Amanda (Tammy Grimes) and Elyot (Brian Bedford) had been married (tempestuously), then divorced (bitterly), and meet again with new spouses on a terrace (naturally) in the South of France. The old magic still works potently, and they "elope" together-self...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: High on Gin and Sin | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

Preliminary Splutter. His best novels -Kipps, Tono-Bungay, Mr. Britling Sees It Through-have their share of belowstairs social comedy and wistful aspirations. But as an artist as well as a prophet, Dickson judges Wells "all brains and very little heart." In Boon, his wicked attack on Henry James, he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: All Brains, Little Heart | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

Fearful as it may be to other religious believers, the end is a prospect that rejoices the hearts of the 323,688 U.S. members of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, as the Witnesses are officially known (worldwide member ship: 1,155,826). In 1914, according to the sect'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sects: Witnessing the End | 7/18/1969 | See Source »

Such classic examples illustrate the classic dilemma: What is pornography and what is outspoken art? Innumerable erotic works, from Ovid's Ars amatoria to Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer, in time assumed the stature of classics. Innumerable others were denounced as wicked when they first appeared. Yet almost everyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Sex as a Spectator Sport | 7/11/1969 | See Source »

Calling itself "Holy" and its tradition "Sacred,' a sect considers any "attack" on it too wicked to be tolerated in the public press. Would any but a group unsure of itself deny its critics the opportunity to sell their points of view in an open market of ideas? Is that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHY NOT ONE RELIGION? | 7/8/1969 | See Source »

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