Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Advocate has been a Harvard institution since 1866, and yet at the very time when it can be presumed that the potential of undergraduate creative expression is at an all-time high, it remains merely a fading memory. With the College almost doubled in size and with the age level three to five years higher than before the war, the number of men with something to say has never been greater. Yet for these men these has been never been no vehicle of expression, hasn't been for twelve months and, in the absence of any definite statement from...
...second star of the Metropolitan's show was Hiroshige, who was born 37 years after Hokusai. His work ended the golden age of Japanese prints and started a new era in Western art. His prints, frequently used in wrapping tea for export to Europe, exerted an influence on Manet, Whistler, Degas, and Van Gogh...
...Neither age, pain, nor liquor had dulled the intent and raffish gleam in his eye. His distrust of property men, doctors and small children was undiminished. His voracious love of life and laughs had not failed, and he still eyed the world with the spurious heartiness of a man with an ace up his sleeve. But his body was flabby and old, and his fiery, bulbous nose had become a shocking badge of suffering. Last week, after 67 years, death finally hoodwinked W. C. Fields, the noblest confidence man of them...
There were also admirals and generals, whose military money now shapes much U.S. research. To this first A.A.A.S. convention of the Atomic Age, the brass spoke reassuring words, on the social aspects of science. They were talking, they knew, to the men who would win future wars...
...average American of 1900, there was some disease germ with his number on it. Now, said the U.S. Public Health Service last week, more Americans survive the bugs, die of degenerative diseases of middle or old age...