Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pretty shoddy, he said, meaning that it has been half-hearted, naive, and oven sort of generous. He then took the occasion to compare our expansion and that of the Soviets--the Truman and Stalin Doctrines--and concluded that the men who created what he termed "the Russian ice age" must be mystified at our decadent lack of ruthlessness...
...GILDED HEARSE (246 pp.)-Charles O. Gorham-Creative Age...
...age, he was told by doctors at Los Angeles' Children's Hospital, there was only a 100-to-1 chance that he would live. The three-hour operation was successful. When he left the operating room, Don's bluish complexion was pink. Doctors believe that Fegenbush, never able to take more than ten steps at a time, will be able to leave his wheelchair...
...Purcell's Steps. In an age when even opera's best friends are calling it decadent, bright young Benjamin Britten's admirers acclaim him as the wonder boy who will restore the glitter to opera's tarnished tiara. In England, which has never produced a composer to match its poets and playwrights, critics call him the likeliest English opera discovery since Henry Purcell composed Dido and Aeneas for a girls' boarding school 250 years...
...everyone else. Wrote he (in his Europe Without Baedeker) : "The opera seizes on you, possesses you, keeps you riveted to your seat during the action and keyed up during the intermissions, and drops you, purged and exhausted, at the end. . . . This opera could have been written in no other age, and it is one of the very few works of art that have seemed to me, so far, to have spoken for the blind anguish, the hateful rancors and the will to destruction of these horrible years...