Word: age
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington wasted eight days coaching over nearly impassable roads from his home in Mount Vernon to the capital at Philadelphia, but 33rd President Eisenhower hardly changed his office routine, indeed barely got time to lean back and peel an orange, as he went about the Eastern Seaboard on air-age conveyances. Only a few days after he okayed purchase of three Boeing jet 707s for future Administration use on long trips, he pushed the sophisticated reciprocating engine up another notch in utility to Presidents. The helicopter, he proved last week, can be more than his traffic-jumping airport taxi...
Elementary schools in Lakewood, Ohio, a comfortable suburb of Cleveland, conscientiously teach all basic subjects, even offer "enrichment" work for bright children. But, like most grade schools, they see no obligation to teach foreign languages or give children a fast, Space-Age start in science. Last winter a group of parents with bright children tested this mixture, found it lean for the pupils with high...
...this point, most critics appeal to sex alone. Rabbits are noted for fecundity. Thurber is an old man. He puts rabbits everywhere. Therefore, the argument runs, fertility has become a fixation with the author, sure evidence of the frustration of age. This line of thought not only does Thurber an injustice, but reflects rampant intellectual cowardice. One must face the rabbit squarely, meet him head-on. The issue cannot be casually side-stepped...
Thurber chooses the comic motif, yet in this process presents to the reader's (perhaps subconscious) appetite a number of themes primary to our age. For Americans sex and war have replaced food and physical danger as cardinal concerns, and new symbols are needed to connote these fears. Thurber has answered with the rabbit myth...
...vintage auto clubs also help to keep the craze alive by emphasizing authenticity and quality. The Classic Car Club recognizes only blue-blooded autos of "fine design, high engineering standards and superior workmanship." Regardless of age. it blackballs all Chevrolets, Plymouths. Xashes. Dodges, Pontiacs, Buicks. Oldsmobiles and De Sotos. even turns down some Cadillac models. Recently the club even refused to admit Ford's modern Continental Mark II as a "classic...