Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...takes a great deal of effort to educate almost one million school children through the age of seventeen, and hard-pressed New York City decided for a while it just couldn't be done completely. The suspension Feb. 6, of 644 problem students onto the streets reflects the Board of Education's desperation with the deliquents who have seriously impeded the public schools...
...laugh at David Wang and the weird bunch of "ex-students" who travel with him. Their morals may be suspect, their sincerity and devotion superficial, their sanity questionable. But as representatives of a small, yet persistent minority opinion in America and as symbols of age-old hatreds they are more than amusing, far less than frightening. Wang and his crew are worth remembering, if only as a proof that there are people like that...
...tendency to jargon, the trouble with verbal music criticism, says Keller, is that it tends to describe musical forms but fails to penetrate beyond them to the "fundamental unity" at the heart of a composition. To lay music's "inner architecture" bare, the critic must abandon language ("The age of description is over") and so immerse himself in analysis of a work that he "lives with it and dreams about...
...physical labor," which caused dizziness and cramps. Senior lavished money on courtesans, wept his eyes out when they died-and rushed on to the arms of his latest conquest. But his bastard son, haunted since childhood "by the problem of seduced women and natural children," decided at an early age that his own books would be dedicated to the saving of corrupted womanhood...
Victorian Space Age. Eerie little spine ticklers of this sort have sold some 2,000,000 copies of 19 books by Britain's Arthur C. (for Charles) Clarke, a science-fiction writer with rare qualifications. Author Clarke holds a first-class honors degree in science from King's College, University of London, served as chairman of the British Interplanetary Society (1950-53), and as early as 1945 he published a pioneering paper on using a space station for radio and television relay. A ten-year sifting of Author Clarke's tales of the space age, The Other...