Word: age
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Buenos Aires, Nelly Rivas, 19, onetime teen-age mistress of Argentina's ex-Dictator Juan ("Just call me Pocho") Perón, announced that she and husband Carlos Ramil, an accountant at the U.S. embassy, expect a baby in April...
Though Harvard's University Professor* Paul Tillich is a rarefied philosopher and theologian, speaking and writing in a language he had to learn at the age of 47, in a country noted for its impatience with theology, he has come to be regarded by the U.S. as its foremost Protestant thinker. And though his working vocabulary is viscous with such terms as ontology, theonomy, numenous and the Gestalt of Grace, he is now devoting most of his time to teaching any Harvard or Radcliffe undergraduate who signs up for his highly popular courses...
...claimed that nonobjective art is the perfect expression of what now seems to be an atomic age, or is in any case a scientificomechanical age, and perhaps that is true. For the nonobjective painting claims validity only for its mechanics, for the material with which it is made and the manner of their organization. It rejects man, his life, his visions, his philosophies, his future...
...Moscow's outskirts. Last week he was readying the world's biggest test of live polio vaccine, had 300 liters on ice-enough for 10 million people. No small operators, Chumakov and colleagues dreamed of immunizing all the Soviet Union's 200 million people regardless of age (600 million doses, since vaccine for one strain of each of polio's three main virus types is given in separate swigs, a month apart). Satellite Czechoslovakia has used all three types, immunized...
This first novel by a woman in her forties is an astonishing work, one of the few rewarding books of a so-so season. The spinster of the title is Anna Vorontosov, a schoolteacher in back-country New Zealand. She is a small woman of uncertain age, whose passions are still young because she has never used them. Gifted but a little balmy, Anna primes herself for school each morning with half a tumbler of brandy, frequently gets the weeps, talks persuasively to trees and flowers, has stupendous headaches in Technicolor. Wildly alive, Anna flinches only at the thought...