Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Various student organizations offered to help the State Department clean house, and the Harvard National Student Association delegation took on a batch of about 5000 of the letters, coding them by sex, age and interests of sonders; during the process some of the sorters abstracted many of the better letters to follow up on their...
...moment bright young (30) Leonard Bernstein finished reading Poet W. H. Auden's The Age of Anxiety, "a baroque eclogue" in a Third Avenue bar (TIME, July 21, 1947), he felt a "compulsion" to compose a symphony based on it. For two years, on his busy rounds of baton waving and piano playing, he scribbled away from Taos to Tel Aviv, "in planes, in hotel lobbies." Last week Lennie's Symphony No. 2 for Piano and Orchestra was ready...
Born in the U.S., Kingman was taken to Hong Kong at the age of five, returned at 18 and went to work in a California overall factory. When the overall business palled, he did a hitch as a houseboy and another in a Chinese restaurant. Finally the WPA came along and gave him a chance to paint fulltime, started him toward becoming a bang-up success with his brush (TIME, Sept. 3, 1945). Since his discharge from the Army, where he served as a private in the OSS in Washington, he has been living in Brooklyn and teaching at Columbia...
...small school (24 pupils), Britain's ultra-progressive, coed Horsley Hall in Eccleshall, Staffordshire, had had its share of the headlines. When a whipping-cane maker lectured at Horsley last fall, teen-age pupils grabbed him and flogged him with one of his own canes (TIME, Dec. 6). Later, Headmaster Robert Copping hit the news by announcing that he was founding a children's union to protect British kids everywhere from their reactionary elders. Last week, bearded Robert Copping was a headline again as a stream of shocked witnesses in the Eccleshall magistrates' court told just...
...Historian Seymour had four years to go before the mandatory Yale retirement age of 68 took effect, but he had decided that the university needed a "fresh leadership of the most vigorous sort." He wanted to give Yale plenty of time to find it. He would not actually leave, he said, until July...