Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whole noisy show was as much a part of U.S. politics as the convention hall. Was there any point to it? In the age of radio, television and public-opinion polls, was the American political campaign an outmoded phenomenon...
...Fraternity Row is a neighborhood of teen-age Little Scorpions Clubs, each with its secret grip, passwords and recognition signals. It may well be that all fraternities are using the same grip without knowing it, but . . . secrets of this caliber . . . can never be divulged, let alone compared...
...Ewell (John Loves Mary), Small Wonder is most pepped up by the singing, spoofing and sass of attractive young Mary McCarty (Sleepy Hollow). With only one unhackneyed satirical target, the show has a sharp eye for such riddled ones as movie endings, magazine ads, the Jazz Age. The fresh gag is Ballad for Billionaires (music by Albert Selden, lyrics by Billings Brown). Sample...
...Pianist Artur Rubinstein) to his brilliant Bachianas Brasileiras, a volatile mixture of his own two idols, Bach and Villa-Lobos. He is a fiery little man who can jump in an instant from twinkling good humor to a shouting, stamping rage. He is vain enough to give his age as 60 (though friends say he is 67), and to rush his music indiscriminately into print. "The maestro," a Rio critic once said, "has written about 2,000 works. I would throw 1,950 of them away." The remaining 50 are still enough to make Villa-Lobos South America...
...student of Latin at the age of eight, McColl had already read a 20-volume encyclopedia by that time, and moved on to reading the Encyclopedia Britannica for relexation at the age...