Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Greg would be critical of them. He welcomed them and, as the winter wore on, they often sat together in front of the fireplace in the high ceilinged parlor. Before it was time for them to leave, Greg served them brandy in huge brandy snifters. He was showing his age more, and sometimes he seemed to be looking backward down the years to scenes his younger friends could not quite envision. Sometimes he told them about meetings he had attended in Lausanne or Perugia, or something he had discovered, quite by accident, in the Bibliotheque Nationale...
...with Oedipus Rex on its own grounds, you approach it like neither Hamlet nor Death of a Salesman, but rather as if it were a Solemn High Mass. It reminds us that the "play" was originally a religious ritual, after all, even if this is a spirit our own age has successfully recaptured on the stage only in Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral...
...Poems, by e.e. cummings. Age (64) has not withered the lyrical high jinks of the U.S.'s poetic dean of lower-case letters...
...Venusberg. Some of her lovers ran successively, some concurrently. Some remained hers for months, others for years. Author Benjamin (Adolphe) Constant was in Germaine's toils for almost a quarter-century. By middle age, she ruled, in Author Herold's words, "like Venus over the damned souls in the Venusberg, like Calypso over shipwrecked travelers, like Circe over her menagerie...
MISTRESS TO AN AGE (500 pp.)-J. Chrlsfopher Herold-Bobbs-Merrill...