Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deeply felt convictions of Pitirim A. Sorokin, director of the Harvard Research Center in Creative Altruism, and one of the most widely read social scientists alive today. The author of more than thirty books, including Social and Cultural Dynamics, The American Sex Revolution, and The Crisis of Our Age, Sorokin's dire predictions are read in twenty languages, and the body of commentary on his work is staggering...
...What? As a Harley Street admirer put it: "In these days of family planning, female emancipation, and ideas of equality in sexual pleasure, it is easy to see Dr. Stopes and say, 'So what?' We have to place her in her own age, when such things were quite beyond the pale-and that was not so long ago." The times had passed her by, but it was because she had done so much to shape them...
...birthday). Discovering that the laws of chance underlie much in nature, Arp turned out a series of paste-ups produced by letting bits of paper float down upon a glue-coated board. Later he meticulously executed paper cutouts, was terribly upset when they began yellowing and spotting with age. He reacted by trying to incorporate time into his work by crumbling the paper in advance. "I realized one cannot achieve an absolute result. One must include death. One must not make a perfect line but a torn line...
...Peace in the Space Age, Lieut. General James M. Gavin...
...heart the season is spring, and as this first collection of new poems in eight years testifies, there is plenty of spring left in his lines (95 Poems; Harcourt, Brace; $4). As ever, Poet Cummings celebrates the life of feeling-love, death and the infinite sea changes of nature. Age has only slightly mellowed Cummings, has not at all curbed his typographical pretzel bending-which can now be recognized for the attention-holding device it is. Fresh, singular, vivid and intense, Cummings' verses recall the aim he once set for himself as a poet: "I can express...