Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Safe Counsel will be particularly valuable to those who look back nostalgically to the golden age of universal morality. For those adrift on the sea of relativism and naturalism, Safe Counsel is a Gibraltar of immutable rules of conduct...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13--President Eisenhower presented to Congress today the highest budget in peacetime history--$73,934,000,000 to embark the nation on "the dawning age of space conquest...
...present the "A" student in Economics, for example, has approximately one-fourth the chance of receiving a summa than his counterpart has in Physics or Mathematics. While this might be partially explained by the nature of the fields (or the age at which significant contributions are made in the sciences as opposed to the social sciences), the discrepancy is far too large. The student in the social sciences should be placed in a more even competitive position...
THACKERAY: THE AGE OF WISDOM-1847-1863 (523 pp.)-Gordon N. Ray-McGraw-Hill...
...rueful being"-particularly the death of Thackeray's infant daughter Jane and the insanity of his young wife Isabella. The new volume shows the saddened giant in his prime-the famed, wealthy author of Vanity Fair and Henry Esmond; the doting father of two idolizing, teen-age daughters; the hero and leading spirit of all who detested the rambunctious literary supremacy of Charles Dickens. Author Ray's biography is less remarkable for its discussion of Thackeray as a novelist than for its description of Thackeray as a man-the best pen picture of the novelist that has been...