Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...picture is clear. The Age of Holden Caul-field is upon us, the University of Chicago syndrome is slowly ossifying. At the citadel of veritas future Bronsons will be sacrificed to the glory of the Spike Sluggs and Moses Kelleys. The uncommon man-typical in his uniqueness--is taking over; the natives of Idyllia are being driven...
...Congress to extend corporation and excise taxes at present rates for another year, also requested Congress to up the federal gasoline tax from 3? to 4½? a gallon and slap a new 4½? tax on jet fuels (to be paid by commercial airlines now entering the jet age). For the plain, suffering taxpayer, the President held out only the hope that his program would bring "tax reduction in the reasonably foreseeable future...
Korns also claimed that the petition's provision for extension under "whatever conditions the Administration may care to make" would more than compensate for the age difference between freshmen and sophomores...
...second volume in the Age of Roosevelt series--The Coming of the New Deal--establishes his claims in all these departments and cements his reputation for wit and clarity of organization. Of course, it would require a particularly inferior historian to make a dull story out of material provided by the chaotic first two years of the New Deal. But Schlesinger has given new depth to the history with which he worked and has produced a book of singular power...
...determining the direction of movement, Roosevelt relied on something beyond "a basic simplicity of mind and heart" and "an instinct for the future." Schlesinger calls it "his extraordinary sensitivity to the emergent tendencies of his age and to the rising aspirations of ordinary people." It was also, as the Crisis of the Old Order detailed it, the temper of the times: threatening revolution, impending economic collapse and above all, human desperation. FDR may have been sensitive to the people's "aspirations," but he was also vitally aware of their needs and their sufferings. In combatting the wants of the economy...