Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...insisted on speaking to the general, to tell him Billy was a great guy. Billy explained that he decided to get in touch with his brother only because he would soon be 65, and it would look bad "if Pat Hurley's brother turned up on the old age pension." Why hadn't he written before? Said Billy: "My brother is a famous man, and I am nothing...
...Modern man . . . staggers between belief and disbelief, revolt and humility, anarchy and obedience. . . . The people of our age are restless, excitable and fatigued. . . . Many fall into despair and cast themselves of their own will into that post-mortem darkness. . . . [Modern man], in his equality with God, either becomes a tyrant or joins the army of the despairing and dying...
...This man with the beard has no outlook of his own. The right and the left have their definite opinions; the tactical gold-seeker slips or creeps in between them. He needs the radical oppositions so that he can skip to and fro. . . . The modern era . . . is the age of permanent revolutions. Reaction itself is a form of revolution . . . whence the high comedy of the golden middle path...
Describing the rapid growth of American music since 1880. Hanson listed four elements necessary for a "golden age:" a wealth of creative talent, ample educational opportunities for the young composer, a "natural" relationship between composer and performer, and a willing and interested audience for new music...
...year age President Truman enunciated bluntly the growing threat of Russian expansion and won overwhelming support for a foreign policy molded to drive the Soviet Union into a limited sphere. Today it is a matter of fact that we have not succeeded in stopping the extension of Russian influence. Through the Communist parties which are its international agencies the Kremlin has exerted continually increasing power throughout Europe...