Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your masterful story . . . exposes our age as one of technical achievement, jets and atomic bombs, paralleled by moral and cultural decay. Like the case of Gandhi, it again proves to a material world how dangerous it is to be really good...
...Rudyard Kipling was right about cats, the dawn-age original of The Cat That Walked by Himself had issued a declaration of independence that all descendants have observed since. But the cats' aloofness and self-reliance have never stopped some people from worshipping them, some people from boiling them in oil,** or generations of artists from trying to catch their inscrutable good looks...
...track the cat through history with the help of sculpture, painting and design. It took more than 250 separate items (in an exhibit entitled "Nine Lives") to spread out the story: from the Egyptians' poker-faced cat-headed goddess Bast to the Chesapeake & Ohio's pampered, machine-age Chessie...
...Osbert came back for the last time, and read from the preface and conclusion to his auto-biography. Speaking as, "a citizen of the sunset age," he asked for a re-evaluation, through art, or our spiritual values. While the audience applauded, Sir Osbert brought his sister back on, and in a brief speech thanked them for their cordiality "on this, our last, public appearance in America...
...age of Ezra and Nehemiah, more than two thousand years ago, the Jews had had their Knesset Hagdola (Great Assembly). The members of its soth Century successor decided also to call it the Knesset. But what should they call themselves? Should they use the ancient word ish (man)? A spokesman for the orthodox Jews objected: "Let's leave that alone until we restore our past glories." They finally chose the word haver, which is colloquial Hebrew...