Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Collegian editorship, to serve as the Advocate of the people. His literary aides in the infant enterprise were Charles S. Gage '67, genial versifier and the most popular man in his class, and William G. Peckham '67, a precocious lad who had entered the College at the age of fourteen...
President Truman's declaration of policy, on the other hand, seems to assume an inescapable conflict between the two principal ideas now struggling for the mastery of the age: democracy and communism...
...that his earliest memories, as a mere infant, were of a previous incarnation, in which he was "a Yogi amidst the Himalayan snows." Crying spells and "prayerful surges" welled up in the precocious little nipper when he realized that he was no more than a mewling suckling. At the age of eight, he was struck down by Asiatic cholera. He was at death's door when his mother gestured frantically toward a photograph of her favorite yogi, and screamed to her son: "Bow to him mentally [and] your life will be spared!" "I gazed at his photograph," Yogananda recalls...
...Eternal Anchorage." "Sometimes -usually when the bills rolled in," muses Anchorite Yogananda (who is now a rather stout, smiling gentleman), "I thought longingly of the simple peace of India." But he looks forward with unruffled demeanor to the "enigmatic Atomic Age." Yogananda is thought by other swamis to be too successful, but, seated before the sweet-toned organ of his San Diego church, he himself believes that in California he has effected not merely a meeting between East and West, but also an "Eternal Anchorage...
...Grass (MGM) lasts only a couple of hours, but it is possible to age a lot during that time. The story is a duel between conservative Cattleman Spencer Tracy and progressive Attorney Melvyn Douglas. Which shall make use of the prairie-the cattle, which will leave it as God made it, or homesteading farmers who (Mr. Tracy keeps warning) will skin it alive? Since Lawyer Douglas has Progress and the Federal Government on his side, the homesteaders eventually...