Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From St. Anne's, scores of parents went on to the county morgue, a dark building surrounded by police ambulances with red lights flashing. There bodies were sectioned off beneath white sheets by aproximate age and sex. "Maffiola?" a hite-coated attendant called out. "The Maffiola family?" Another attendant died: "Sarno? Anyone here for Sarno?" A deputy coroner told a registrar: "Better leave room for 100 names." The names: Michele Altobell . . . Karen Baroni . . . David Biscan . . . Philip Tampone . . . Christine Vitacco . . . Wayne Wisz. The toll: 91 dead-53 girls, 35 boys, three nuns-and more than 100 injured...
...partisan preoccupations have not blinded Governor Bowles to his own party's shortcomings. In an age which he characterizes as one of "peace by terror," Bowles condemns the Democrats' negative approach to foreign affairs, particularly during the long period of silence when the party failed to articulate its opposition to the Administration's Formosa policy...
...this nuclear age, war is no longer a feasible choice, says Mills; we must have total peace. He holds that the history of modern society can most readily be understood as the story of the enlargement and the centralization of the means of power. Mills is not appalled by this centralization of power in Russia and America; he thinks that it makes rational decision of world problems easier...
...four short years the college weans him from his adolescent languor by giving substance to such middle class ideals as order, planning, ambition, and achievement. During his four year stay at college this youngster turns from his teen-age dreams to the impersonal requirements of his future career--work and individual responsibility. His college degree symbolizes his surrender to the success ethic, and his ability to gradate foreshadows ability in the conference room and at the bargaining counter...
...undergraduates below the age of reason recall the glorious four-sided clock of golden arms that once perched atop Memorial Hall. Destroyed in a fire over two years ago, only a faint echo of its booming voice is heard to remind Harvard of a time when men of high degree and low measured their affairs by its authority...