Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...health," observed Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emeritus, three years ago to an inquirer, "is as good as any man my age in the country." Marking his eighty-seventh birthday tomorrow, Professor Copeland can find no one to dispute the point any more...
President Conant, speaking at a convocation at Virginia Polytechnic Institute yesterday morning, warned that wishful thinking and hysteria are equally dangerous to nations walking along "the tightrope of the atomic age." Conant called international atomic control the key to world peace...
Lawrence S. Thompson's Notes on Bibliokleptomania, an informative "review of centuries of thievery" which shows that neither age nor instruction can reform the absent-minded book borrower or save the true bibliophile from the temptation to pick up and pocket volumes that catch his fancy. One of history's most eminent bibliokleptomaniacs seems to have been Cardinal Pamfili (who later became Pope Innocent X). Charged one day with book-lifting from a private library, the book-loving Cardinal denied the charge with such fury that-the stolen volume fell from beneath his robes with a resounding crash...
...Dangerous Age. In South Bend, Bachelor Dan Young announced that he was considering marriage, not just with "any young woman," but with someone his own age...
...impressive entertainment. If the episodic nature of the narrative is admitted, each individual sequence has independent unity of pace. The coronation of young Ivan, the sacking of Tartar Kazan, a deathbed scene which ably reproduces the oriental mysticism of medieval Russian Christianity, and the loneliness of Ivan's old age as his princes desert to the jackals baying around his borders--all these make striking individual images. Unfortunately, they are strung together in ponderous disunity and confusion...