Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scandal: the reigning farm price-support program that costs the U.S. nearly $5 billion a year, while it makes worse the situation it pretends to cure, distorts the normal workings of agricultural economics, corrupts farmers, and shows in nearly every way that it is obsolete in the age of new farm technology (TIME...
...trick in Otello, the great tragic opera of Verdi's old age, is to pile into Scene 1 at full emotional gallop and to keep at it without nagging for three hours. Both vocally and dramatically, it is one of the most difficult works in all opera, as Verdi himself acknowledged ("This lago," he said grandly, "is humanity"). Last week, after a lapse of two years, the Metropolitan Opera tackled Otello and achieved a performance that did justice to Verdi's looming vision. It also served as a reminder that the Met is having a brilliant season...
Hard-driving Reporter Kuettner, 44, spent a week prowling the city from the cluttered streets of East Harlem to the seedy side of Brooklyn, talked to school officials and students, white and Negro members of teen-age gangs, storekeepers and social workers, judges and Mayor Robert Wagner. Result: a perceptive, carefully documented three-part series. Reporter Kuettner's conclusion: "You cannot in honesty find that actual racial conflict is causing the rampage of juvenile delinquency. You cannot but admit that Negroes, white children and Puerto Ricans get along amiably in their classes...
...outset, Mother Mary faced the question of what age the girls should be. She decided that adolescents are "the youngsters who are least understood and who need guidance most. Everyone loves to play with a cute and docile baby, but teen-agers are too often unwanted." Last fall Mother Mary welcomed to Girls' Town 16 ragged, frightened orphan girls from institutions all over Italy. They looked in wonder at the pink exterior walls, the brightly painted rooms ("Colored paint costs no more than white, and it's much more cheerful"). One girl exclaimed at the sight...
...lights in the Forum Room became dim for the showing of "The Age That Is Waiting" and some alumni left to prepare for the heady Union dinner later in the evening, Pratt quoted President Eliot's exhortation: "Thus far came our fathers, now press you on." Leaving the platform, Pratt softly added his own exhortation, "Good luck...