Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Georges ("Gorgeous Georges") Carpentier, a promising French heavyweight until he tried to mix it with Jack Dempsey in 1921, came back for a visit to the U.S. with some thoughts on middle age (he is 54): "I don't feel old. I know I'm getting old, but I don't feel it. I don't want to see it even. I don't look in the mirror any more." He had found that "life is very interesting if you make mistakes. That gives you an ambition in life to correct mistakes, to make money...
Walker's sample ranged in age from 18 to 30, included married men and ex-G.I.s. Most of them had picked up their knowledge of sex from friends their own age or slightly older. Parents and schools, who ought to have helped, had failed miserably...
Agnes remembers herself as a plump and awkward little girl, who liked to scurry about the house, at the age of seven, imitating Pavlova. Her father, Playwright William de Mille (a brother of Producer Cecil B.), thought her imitation preposterous. Agnes could be anything she wanted, he said-except a dancer...
...believes in sea serpents too; he marshals an impressive panel of ministers, sea captains and other reliable witnesses to testify that they exist. They are not "serpents", he thinks, but some large reptile or mammal from an earlier age...
...certainly grave, if not morbid, obsessed with the Puritan sense of guilt and haunted by a family curse, writing his wonderful stories that no one knew he had written, working at the dull routine of the Custom House to provide for his family, and emerging in his early middle age ... to take part in a contemporary world he had scarcely known existed." Says Robert Cantwell: "Such a portrait, with its angular shadows, its El Greco distortions . . . is in itself an interesting product of the American imagination ... but I found it less and less like Hawthorne the more I learned...