Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your article "The Long Shadow of John Dewey" ought to be emblazoned on the walls of every academic institution cursed with the pseudoscientific, anti-intellectual invention of this age: the department of education. Having been educated in a school system of this otiose type, I now look forward to the day when I shall receive my B.A. degree from Texas University. Then I can satisfy myself that I have received the equivalent of a good high school education...
...Records, onlookers crowded the corridors to get a glimpse of the drama, ohed and ahed as the principals threaded into the courtroom. Cheryl, detained in juvenile prison, testified by deposition that the last fight between Johnny and her mother arose after Lana learned that Johnny had lied about his age: he was really 32, not 42, as he had said...
...poet, idealist, burgher of London, Commissioner of Dykes and Ditches, who loved his fellow man both good and bad, and found no answer to the puzzle of life but in truth and courage and beauty and belief in God." Kittredge longed to have a chance to live in an age when this sort of life was possible, a desire hinted at in Witchcraft in Old and New England, "We are all specialists now-a-days, I suppose. The good old times of the polymath and the doctor universalis are gone forever." In trying to fullfill this archaistic longing, Kittredge achieved...
...Age had not conquered him, but whatever youth he had once possessed had long since faded from his face and only a remnant of fire burned behind his tired and blurry eyes. Not even his faith in radicalism, a movement to which he had devoted the greater part of his life, had been able to hold back the wrinkled and weather-beaten appearance he presented. Leaning back in his chair, he re-lit his pipe, and assumed a reflective fixity in his rendezvous with the past...
Dawson was professor of Comparative Religion at University College, Exeter, and Forwood Lecturer in the Philosophy of Religion at the University of Liverpool. He has written nearly 20 books, including, The Age of the Gods, Medieval Religion, and Beyond Politics...