Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good to be reminded that human dignity and greatness still exist and are still newsworthy. It was wood to have the curtain withdrawn for a little on our newest troubled probings into the unknown, the terrifying vistas and apocalyptic visions of the Atom Age...
There is the city of Girolamo Savonarola, the austerely fanatical Dominican friar, who preached rebellion against the lavish corruptions of his church and his age. That Florence still finds a fanatical echo in the souls of many Italians...
...Japan. He could never again discover the entrance to their country, was finally confined by skeptical authorities. He regarded his stay in the asylum with resignation, remembering the words of Mag, the kappa philosopher: "The wisest way of life is to look with contempt at the customs of an age, but nonetheless to live so as not in the least to destroy them...
...Proposal Swift similarly suggested that poor Irish mothers be permitted to sell their year-old offspring for 10 shillings. The babies could then be slaughtered, sold as edible meat. This would limit excessive population, furnish a new source of food supply. Clarence Day's Animals in a Machine Age advocated training squirrels to operate textile bobbins, raccoons to run railways. While they worked it would be in the employer's best interest to keep them healthy and fat; when business slackened, the meat of those laid off could be sold at a discount. Citizens of Samuel Butler...
...Does not the very extravagance of our devotion prove that we live in a religiously vapid age, in which even Christians fail to penetrate to the more ultimate issues of life...