Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Southern California has a "Mediterranean" climate (mild wet winters and hot dry summers) like ancient Greece. Therefore, enthusiasts claim, it will some time lead the world intellectually into a new Age of Pericles...
Psychologists classify a moron as one grade above an imbecile, two above an idiot. He has a mental age of eight to twelve, an I.Q. between 50 and 70. How does he get along, or does he? Dr. Ruby Jo Reeves Kennedy, sociologist at the Connecticut College for Women, made a survey of 256 morons, decided that in these days of full employment, the moron is generally employable and doing surprisingly well for himself...
...between $35 and $55 a week, compared with the U.S. average industrial wage of $51.50. He gets to work on time, gets along very well with people smarter than he is. Movies are his favorite entertainment, though he also listens to the radio regularly. He marries, at an average age of 21.9 years, a wife who went farther in school than he, and has an average of one child. Dr. Kennedy made no test of the child's intelligence...
...characters already reported by the author in My Lives in Russia, bites more deeply into reality than the rest. Mrs. Fischer has realized the human meaning of separation and terror. But to dramatize humanity against inhumanity, while it may be the best possible counter propaganda for the present age, is not necessarily...
...Miss Oldenbourg's canvas is wide but her stitches are painstakingly small. Heroine Alis settles down to yearly pregnancies, frequent miscarriages, and incessant worries about the financial decline of the manor, the fruits of which her self-indulgent husband squanders on pomp, tournaments and the Crusades. Before old age, each has one fierce extramarital fling -and two bastards are added to the brood of infants at gloomy Linnieres...