Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fights old age. He still goes elk hunting (in a jeep), deliberately loses the cane he was forced to adopt, still smokes 30 cigarettes a day (they are specially rolled for him by one Mrs. Matilda Granditzky, of Sweden's tobacco monopoly). Recently he demonstrated his favorite acrobatic trick to his gasping entourage: sitting on a chair, he lifted both legs and placed his feet behind his ears...
Until the appearance of "Crossfire" a few months age, Hollywood carefully avoided the subject of anti-semitism. "Crossfire" was a story of violence and hate that was hardly close to the experience of most movie audiences. "Gentleman's Agreement," the second outspoken attack on anti-semitism, shows the thing in almost every one of its usual forms: The hero, who for a few months pretends to be a Jew, discovers it in his finance as well as in a hotel manager, and in Jews themselves as well as in Christians...
...crash; British railways settled down to healthy competition. In World War I competing railways had to cooperate, under national control. Then Britain's 123 lines were amalgamated into four great groups (the London, Midland & Scottish, the London & North Eastern, the Great Western, and the Southern). A mellow, golden age began for travelers on British trains. Unlike their U.S. counterpart, British railways have consistently made money from passengers, consequently gave them attentive service. British first-class compartments were among the most comfortable in the world. Dining cars offered deferential waiters, seats without queuing and even good food. The management provided...
Training his infantry chorus (whose average age is 28), de Paur strives first to get them in the mood of what the song is about. Says he: "When we sing a Cossack song, we're as near to being Cossacks as we can get; when we sing the Jewish chant Eli Eli, we're as close to being Jews with their whole history of oppression and religious faith as is possible for us." Sometimes the harmony gets too close, and de Paur admits it. "I may go overboard a bit. Lord knows I deplore that homogenized effect...
...Barnouw, Lear; $5) tell a lot about his time. Like the Satevepost covers of Norman Rockwell and John Falter, Bruegel's 16th Century pictures are minutely reportorial. But Bruegel never lapsed into slickness or sentimentality, not even when he illustrated the fairy tales and proverbs of his age. His frankness might not get through the mails today...