Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Changes in admissions policies of Harvard, and Radcliffe since 1933, was obviously the subject which most interested the 25th reunion class-the majority of whom have children approaching college age...
High School Confidential (M-G-M), based on the story (TIME, Dec. 3, 1951) of a young narcotics agent who broke up a Texas dope ring by posing as a teen-age addict, is written in the sort of hipsterical slanguage that can only be understood by the underprivileged few who really dig that crazy talk. The film is reviewed by TIME's Endsville correspondent...
This Angry Age (De Laurentiis; Columbia). "There were many children in the plain," wrote Marguerite Duras in The Sea Wall (TIME, March 16, 1953), the brutally beautiful French novel about Indo-China on which this film is based. "They were a kind of calamity . . . They came each year, by periodical tides, by crops. They were everywhere, perched in the trees, on the backs of buffaloes . . . in the mud, looking for the dwarf crabs of the rice fields, [and] they were always followed by packs of stray dogs, whose . . . main nourishment was their excrement . . . They died in such numbers that they...
...age of Sputnik and the crisis in American education have done their work to sober up the traditional week of reckless abandon, when the "old grads" return to Cambridge, and to the "bright college days" of ten, twenty-five, or fifty years ago. Being a Harvard alumnus has become a year-round...
...Reunion Week, 1958, shows the marked tendency for the alumnus to use the week in Cambridge to reacquaint himself with the educational, as well as the "extra-curricular," aspect of his college days. Forums on the Soviet Union, space travel, and the place of the humanities in the scientific age demonstrate at once the increased seriousness of the Reunioners and the topics which may have encouraged this seriousness...