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Word: busyness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1970
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If the entire world turned into a bleak desert of melancholy, Neil Simon would be an oasis of laughter. His eye for the wryly amusing incongruities of life, his zingy one-line gag-ripostes, his ardently skilled desire to be entertaining-all these have made him the leading U.S. comic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Comic Tearjerker | 12/28/1970 | See Source »

Not Possible. A man of rigid habits, "Gianni" Bucher had left his house in a residential section of Rio at precisely 8:45 a.m., and followed precisely the same route he always took for the 15-minute trip downtown to the Swiss embassy. As his big Buick cruised down a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil: Raising the Ransom Price | 12/21/1970 | See Source »

Perhaps Fairbanks can still claim to be on the edge of the last American frontier-it's the largest settlement in the Alaskan interior, the last real town before the roads end, the jumping-off point for the development of the Prudhoc Bay oilfields to the North. There are still...

Author: By William S. Beckett, | Title: Relaxing, Living, Taking Time To Do Things | 12/17/1970 | See Source »

There have also been of course, expressions of anti-war sentiment in the media. Johnny Got His Gun, for example, is a brilliantly emotional anti-war novel written after World War I. Now, in the face of the continuing Indochina War, New Left novelists sense a receptive audience and the...

Author: By Jerry T. Nepom, | Title: War Stories Shooting 'Em Up in 'Nam | 12/16/1970 | See Source »

First indoctrination completed, we dock at Curaçao for a run ashore. Suddenly everyone we see seems to be smoking, and we plunge into the shops-or the clear sea-to escape. The weakest-willed flee back to the ship. This is to be the pattern for the next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Kicking the Habit | 12/14/1970 | See Source »

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