Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...real wit and imagination, Volpone and Mosca are exhilarating villains; their dupes are ludicrous victims. And Ben Jonson, the solidest playwright of his age, was possibly its finest rhetorician-a man who could give words color and weight, impact and grandeur...
...seem to be writing off the top of their minds. Why, when people have discovered Partisan Review on the shelf, their eyes have lit up with pleasure, and as you know people's eyes don't light up any more, what with the dawn of the ice age...
Dewey's plan did away with the age-old difference in elementary and high-school pay scales on the grounds that "it is just as important to get good teaching for children in the grade schools as for children in the high schools." The new plan also struck at an evil that had corroded the New York City, Buffalo and Rochester school systems for years: it nearly doubled the pay of substitute teachers, thereby all but wiped out the sweatshop system of "permanent substitutes." (There are 5,500 New York State substitutes, some of whom have been teaching regularly...
...acre site on Long Island which used to be Camp Upton, a vast World War II reception center, is now mostly a collection of slatternly abandoned barracks. But its flatlands have a new destiny: on them will grow a monster of the atomic age-a workshop for the strange, powerful, ominous machines of modern nuclear physics...
Today, most citizens of the English-speaking world would feel that Bab was cheap at the price. They might also feel that without this firsthand experience of Italian opera bouffe at an impressionable age, Gilbert would never have furnished his famed librettos* with some of their most striking characteristics, e.g., the plausible ruffians and harried nursemaids, the wacky plots that hinge on babies stolen and strayed, the identities lost in enigmas and found through...