Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eberle one knows, Spoor way to start the Dartmouth weekend," the Beeman sage of the age Neidle-d his companion...
...society as a whole. Good labor relations require that the union feel secure and be able to bargain on the merits of each issue. Any law prohibiting the union shop can only impede good labor-management relations and set the labor movement back into the dark age where it fought for its own life rather than for the good of its members...
Catastrophic Effect. Another point agreed on without much fuss was that most modern art, like most art of any period, is second-rate or worse. "We have lived," said British Critic Raymond Mortimer, "[in an art age] dominated by a few men of extraordinary imaginative power, like Matisse, Picasso and Braque. Greatly as I admire them, I think their effect on their contemporaries and juniors has been catastrophic. To distort before you can represent is like trying to dance before you can walk." But, argued Mortimer, "modern painting is no more difficult to understand than modern poetry, modern music...
...atomic age, you can't be too careful about your neighbors. When an atomic pile is at work, it releases radioactive gases (invisible but deadly) that are sure to get around the neighborhood. This problem has been worrying Brookhaven National Laboratory, which is building a pile. It has also worried nervous Long Islanders who live near the laboratory...
Young Washington (the first two volumes bring him up to the age of 27) is 1,013 pages of solid fact and educated guesswork buttressed with 5,440 footnotes, uncompromisingly set below the text. For the popular, novelized biography, full of glib insights into the inner man, Freeman has nothing but contempt. His dogged intent is to portray Washington day by day and "year by year, through each new experience, as if nothing were known and nothing were certain about his future...