Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this day & age when churches are pleading, understandably, for a return to religious faith and prayer as the only means of uniting for world peace, I keep wondering why our educational institutions haven't taken steps in this direction. It seems to me that we have been neglecting an important part of our education...
Last week, in spite of this preoccupation with the past, he symbolized a phenomenon of modern U.S. life which was as familiar to most citizens as the forward pass and nylon stockings-the nation's Community Chests. In a cynical age Charles Francis Adams had never questioned the precept that the man who accepted success or social position thereby accepted responsibility toward 'other men. Neither had he lost faith in the New England belief that a family or a community must care for its own. And after eleven years as president of the Greater Boston Community Fund...
...Age of Conant--(502 pp.)--Arthur M. Schlesinger IV--The Crimson Press...
Schlesinger expertly plays the role of the good biographer in this remarkable book which deals with Conant the man as well as an age which found him the dominating figure in American life. The historian proves an objective critic, his testimony gives credit to his skill as reporter and writer...
...this sensitively written and finely conceived book which treats the dawning of that period in American history known as the Harvardian Age at which time scholarly James Bryant Conant was Chief Executive, Arthur M. Schlesinger IV proves as competent a chronicler of events in the nation's history as did his great-grandfather Arthur Meier Schlesinger, author and one-time Francis Higginbotham professor of history, Harvard; and grandfather Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., who carried off a Pulitzer prize for his book, The Age of Jackson...