Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American music may be entering its golden age." Howard Hanson, director of the Eastman School of Music, told a Paine Hall audience last night. "Whether it will come in our lifetime I don't know, but the signs of spring are everywhere...
...profit motive, Father Smith said, was "legitimate if kept within bounds [but] the primary purpose of an economic system is to provide a living for all and not, therefore, huge profits for the few, with some measure of what remains trickling down to the lower levels. This is the age-old traditional Catholic teaching. Unfortunately . . . even among Catholics ... it has received scarcely any support...
...said Gus, "it's almost time to hang up the trunks." That was about a month ago, when he was feeling his age. At 33, he was an old man among boxers, even though the sportwriters had just crowned him 1947's Fighter of the Year. Last week, as Light-Heavyweight Champion Gus Lesnevich climbed into the ring at Madison Square Garden, plenty of eyes in the house were on his opponent-Billy Fox. Fox was only 22, and had won 50 of his 51 fights by knockouts. Fox, everybody said, looked like a possible contender...
Medea. Judith Anderson offering one of the great performances of the age in Robinson Jeffers' adaptation of one of the great dramas of the ages (TIME...
Juenger envisaged a new world of anonymous, depersonalized robot-men immersed in the processes of technology and disciplined into grey armies of soldier-workers. In the age of the machine, individualism seemed to him a sentimental illusion, morality a superfluous gesture. All that counted in his nightmare world was steel: cold, powerful, implacable, featureless...