Word: age
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Concludes Schlesinger: "A party which seeks to qualify itself for responsibility in an age of national and international crisis is not well advised to begin to do so by blowing out its own brains...
Long ago, in a simpler, kindlier age, Harvard University was a football power. In 1919, for example, its football machine rolled up a total of 222 points, as against 13 for its opponents. Its record marred only by a 10-10 tie with Princeton, the Crimson accepted a bid to Pasadena; and on January 1, 1920, Harvard ushered in a new decade by becoming the first Eastern team to win the Rose Bowl...
...history have both impassioned B.B., whose thirst for knowledge has been watered by immense energy. But Berenson's soul is of a renaissance tint and its tempo, plus, of course, the weight of his convictions, has led him to declare, "I pity you because you must live in this age of decadence and despair...
That was until he ran into his allies. You see, there were other people who didn't like Henry James. Those People who hang around Schoenhof's in the daytime and well-lit Wigg windows at night (in this sublimating summer age), who scrawl bits of free verse on toilet paper tissue and pursue the Muse enthusiastically. Like the grimy fellow who whispered over his Haffenreffer malt liquor: "How could James know about life? You heard about the bicycle accident he had when he was young? Well...
...airlines are all set to take off into the jet age when Pan American World Airways begins flights to Europe around Nov. 1 with Boeing's 707, and American Airlines starts domestic jet service early next year. But last week the Port of New York Authority, operator of New York International Airport, the world's key international terminal (accounting for 60% of all air traffic bound to and from the U.S.) blew a warning whistle...