Word: agee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pinnacle of fame. It is almost ironical that Thomas Hardy, whose name will in time probably stand at the head of the list of his eminent contemporaries, should outlive them all. Furthermore, it is strange that an author whose "classic pessimism" is his outstanding characteristic should outlast his own age and live to a comfortable and happy senility in a generation whose chaos might justify his pessimism...
There exists a general impression that this is the great age of the individual. It is not. As a matter of terminology if a person commits a conventional sin, he is asserting his individuality against hampering taboos. But really it is a time of joiners, of mass movements, productions, and prohibitions, even of mass education...
...Glenn writes about four such women; one is Mrs. Habersham, who, as she approaches old age, is entirely concerned with matters of sex which she should have outgrown; Mrs. Habersham resides with her elder and married daughter Alice May, who is stupider, prettier, lazier than her mother; visiting Alice May are her two aunts, Sallie and Natalie, both quite credibly prurient and unattractive. The entrance of Laura Habersham, Mrs. Habersham's second daughter, who has so far forgotten her Southern breeding as to become the mother of a child without wedlock, strikes her mother, sister and aunts like...
Commenting on trying Berlin. Gershwin declared that the popular song writer could not even read music Now at the age of 39 he is planning to study music "I told him to do that ten years ago," Gershwin said. "All great composers of the past spent most of their time studying. Feeling alone won't do the job. A man also needs technique...
...medieval scientific theories have always furnished much amusement to the people of this more enlightened age. Particularly have students enjoyed the anecdote that divines of the thirteenth century argued furiously the number of angels able to stand on the point of a pin. But the layman in his attitude toward science today is often stupid where the ancients whom he reads were merely uninformed. His conception of the action of a radio, or psycho-analysis is no more intelligent than their belief in the efficacy of a saint's bones or the spices from a mummy. And one wonders...