Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...serious thought in the law has come full circle. After the explosion of World War II, after a decade of cold war against Communism in the awesome dawn of the space age, the single, most dramatic development in the law of the U.S. is the return to the idea of first principles...
...behavior of the two students--they were students, not townies--is, we hope, not typical. Harvard has not yet begun to form teen-age gangs after the manner of New York, but the bombing, if it was part of an organized club initiation or if it was just the brain-child of two idiots, has all the attributes of a teen-age mentality...
...England the masterwork of Stone Age men is getting long-needed maintenance, using the most modern methods. In spite of clamor from indignant traditionalists, Britain's Ministry of Works intends to reerect one of the massive trilithons (three-stone arches) of prehistoric Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain. It fell in 1797 after staying upright for perhaps 3,000 years, and there are accurate drawings that show it unfallen. The ministry will not reerect other trilithons that fell in Roman times or earlier, but it sees nothing false about restoring Stonehenge to its 18th century condition...
Smith: No! But businessmen did some damage, too. They overproduced, and they cut down investment-one of the perils, by the way, of the Age of Abundance. Much of the blame has to go to the auto industry. The overselling of cars in 1955 was shocking. And it was a mistake not to cut prices in 1957. Matter of fact, this depression could rightly be called the Auto Depression...
...adventures of the man himself which, above all, make this story an entertaining, moving, and important one. While never surrendering the rigorous standards of a great analytic philosopher, Russell has been deeply and outspokenly "involved," "committed," "existentially concerned" with the dilemmas that have beset his age. He has realized that it is precisely because the areas philosophers so often forfeit to politicians and theologians are murky, irrational, and vague, that thinkers professionally concerned with clarity and logic should not hesitate to comment on them--and even, if need be, to come out of the study and crusade...