Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vest. He shuns Washington social life, preferring to spend his time with his family (Wife Ollie Mae, two sons, 23 and 19). He still treasures and quotes the faded poets, including Poe, Kipling and Edwin (The Man with the Hoe) Markham, whom he loved in his boyhood. In an age when public men tend to hedge their affirmations, he speaks out forthrightly for such notions as "the integrity of the dollar" and the value of individuality. A devout, Bible-reading Methodist, he last year kept a speaking date by unabashedly reading a 200-line poem he had composed to remind...
Speaking to a reasonably square audience in Boston, opinion-crammed Anthropologist Margaret (Coming of Age in Samoa) Mead, 57, turned her withering gaze on the beatniks, did her high-level best to define one: "A person who can't tolerate the meaninglessness of the low level of goodness, and just because it is both low level and good casts his artistic rebellions in bizarre and often misunderstood forms...
...primarily a writer, not a teacher," MacLeish said, "but I have great feeling for my attachment with the University." MacLeish, who came to Harvard in 1949, is currently in his eleventh year on the Faculty. Now 67, he reached possible retirement age two years...
...Teen-Age Dwarf, Shulman...
Renouncing Babbitry for Babel, Gertrude Stein was a kind of saint to some and a stunt to others. She belongs not to the ages, but an age-the '20s. Fresh from his last safari (Dylan Thomas in America), Poet-Critic John Malcolm Brinnin goes in search of this Abominable Snowoman of modern letters. What he brings back is not startling, but it is a biographically complete if critically indulgent account of the concentric odyssey of Gertrude Stein, of whom it might be said: in her beginning was her end, because she was all middle...