Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...care, James Madison sought to separate church & state forever. He hoped thus to stamp out the conflicts and persecutions which had been transplanted from the Old World to the New. Time & again the Supreme Court of the United States has had to define what separation meant. Last week, the age-old question was before it again. And the Court, operating more as a debating society than as the Government's judicial mind, could produce nothing better than a 5-to-4 decision which settled little and solved nothing. It did show? and thereby took aback those who fondly imagined that...
...plunged with unsparing effort into her postwar job as Education Minister. She said her aim was to educate young Britons for the atomic age: "It's a race between education and extinction." In recent weeks she had worried about herself, told some friends that she was "done for." But she still dashed about the country to local school meetings, kept four secretaries busy, wangled money, materials and manpower to build more schools...
...must be remembered that half of all childlessness is voluntary. . . . Study of 8,370 completed families (those in which the wife had passed the child-bearing age) revealed that of the childless couples, 59% were happy; of the parents of three or more children, 71% were happy. It is clear that happiness increases with the number of children. . . . Most couples who go into the divorce court are childless. No one can escape the conclusion that the divorced population represents to some extent a biologically inferior part of the population...
...Artist as a Young Man, his lyrics and his play, Exiles, all complete), Harvard's Professor Harry Levin wrote: "As we study them closely, we are less intimidated by their idiosyncrasies, and more impressed not only by the qualities they share with the great books of other ages, but by their vital concern for the problems of our own age...
...events of Mozart's career form an extraordinarily dramatic sequence without benefit of external embellishments: he started as an extraordinary child prodigy, worked with astonishing success at first, then was defeated by the intrigues of petty jealousies, and died in abject poverty, chiefly from overwork, at the age of 35. To this natural and interesting history the Italian producers have added a prolonged and bitter love affair with Aloysia von Weber, whose sister, Constanza, Mozart actually married after only a brief flirtation with Aloysia...