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Word: uplift (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1960
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...English critic, its automatic recoil from "any program that will seriously annoy the Church of England, the Royal Family, the three services, the British Medical Association or the Law Society." It enjoyed a monopoly in British radio broadcasting for 33 years, during which its Oxford-accented air of uplift earned the BBC the fond, but not too fond, nickname "Auntie." Five years ago, along came commercial TV. The Tory government created the privately owned Independent Television Authority to give Auntie competition. With a zest for controversy and no qualms about serving up popular fare (much of it made in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Auntie Steps Out | 7/11/1960 | See Source »

...delights those who feel that "a dirty mind is a continual feast." The modern critics of Shakespeare argue that he lacks a point of view. T. S. Eliot charges that his philosophy was "inferior" to Dante's; G. B. Shaw finds that he offers no message of social uplift, and ranks him below G. B. Shaw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STAGE: To Man From Mankind's Heart | 7/4/1960 | See Source »

...Roof "a symphony of evil"-Dakin nonetheless finds an implied positive in each. Rape of a sister-in-law (A Streetcar Named Desire), homosexuality (Cat, etc.), cannibalism (Suddenly, Last Summer), garden-variety adultery (Orpheus Descending) and castration (Sweet Bird of Youth} may not be radiant with uplift, but "there can be no valid moral objection to the exposure of this sort of sin in human nature." The only Tennessee Williams product ever condemned by the Roman Catholic Legion of Decency, Williams' brother points out, was the film Baby Doll, and the problem there lay more in Hollywood than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: That Sweet Bird | 4/11/1960 | See Source »

...fleet couriers hopped on horse or camel, or jumped into autos or motorboats, to hurry to the nearest telegraph office. Many Pakistan electors decorated their ballots with Urdu or Bengali verses in praise of Sandhurst-trained Field Marshal Ayub, attached bills and checks payable to Ayub's favorite uplift projects, or simply wrote: "I love Ayub." So little suspense was involved that Karachi's leading daily, Dawn, published full details on President Ayub's plans for his inaugural three days before he was even elected and five days before the votes were officially...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAKISTAN: 95.6% Love Ayub | 2/29/1960 | See Source »

Express the Uplift. Rudolph last year completed his second major building, Yale's Greeley Forestry Laboratory. To dramatize the strength of precast concrete, Rudolph opened up the capitals until they became widespread Ys. He winced when his building was promptly dubbed the "concrete orchard," but insisted stubbornly: "A column is really holding something up. It should express this uplift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: BRIGHT NEW ARRIVAL | 2/1/1960 | See Source »

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