Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...writer than that he has a lively style? Even some occasional malice can be forgiven, but in the review of Huxley's new book [Brave New World Revisited-Nov. 17] your reviewer seems to have gone beyond the malicious to the vicious. And I wonder what age would he suggest as appropriate to stop talking about the problem of overpopulation...
...official ballot count was slow coming in from such out-of-the-way precincts as Nunivak Island, Pilot Point and Akutan, but long before all the outlying precincts were heard from in Alaska's first statehood election (minimum voting age: 19) the results were clear: the Democrats took every major elective office, from Governor on down, and in the 60-man legislature won every seat but four or five. Top men in the new state...
...age when Foreign Offices employ batteries of experts, trade specialists, speechwriters and paper sorters who glory in their settled ways, nations rarely act any more on carefree impulse. Thus, international surprise was the first reaction to last week's merger of Ghana (formerly a British colony on the Gold Coast) with Guinea, which until two months ago was a French colony. The second reaction last week in London and Paris was shock...
...house. The father is caretaker for his landlord. The Indian mother and all the family-except one-spend their days squatting on a curbstone around an open charcoal brazier, making and selling tacos (tortillas rolled around fillings of beans, meat or chicken). The exception is a teen-age daughter, who wears nylons and goes to a commercial school-her way into the middle class paid for by her family...
Robinson's piece is the description by a man, of (as yet) unrevealed age and circumstances, of his childhood in Rome. The core of the episode is the tension between two parts of the child's education for and in life: the severe intellectual discipline to which his father subjects him, and the sensuousness of his environment, Rome...