Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...power-with, rather than power-over, others . . . Only those who know the military or have experienced the industrial form of organization will fully appreciate how lucky is our academic lot ... It is good, how good, to share the unearned increments of joy arising from continuous collaboration of youth and age...
...lucky purchaser of mining properties. Twenty years ago, to celebrate his acquisition of an enormously profitable lead and zinc mine at Zellidja, Morocco, Walter began passing out some of the world's least lavish and most demanding scholarships. Each year, 300 young lycée graduates (average age: 18½) get $70 each, and certificates explaining their mission. Then the Zellidja scholars are thrust off to begin research projects, pledged not to use any money except the $70 stipend. They are on their honor to live by their wits...
...sings, she dances, she is an expert ventriloquist and a hypnotic spieler of commercials, she had her first book (The Shari Lewis Puppet Book) published last week; at the age of 24, she makes more than $75,000 a year, and children write her letters: "My mother says I have to cat spinach if I'm going to grow up as big as you. Please stand up so I can see how much I have...
Manhattan-born Shari has been aiming at one audience or another since she pulled her first rabbit out of a hat at the age of four. A broken leg in adolescence ended her dream of becoming a professional dancer, so she turned to ventriloquism. A year later, at 18, she had her own TV show, has had one or more ever since. Today her pell-mell schedule leaves her about an hour and a half a day to herself, during which "I look at my husband...
...barks and squeals of the baboon colonies. They were housed in the end sections of a Quonset-shaped structure of diamond wire. In one end was the pack of 30 Texas-bred baboons, with its single overlord adult male, his harem of a dozen females of reproductive age, a few adolescents and two tiny, three-month babies. At the other end was the pack of 70 young, imported baboons trapped in Africa...