Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...line with the recommendations of a 1956 commission chaired by Five Star General Omar Bradley; let the $500 million-a-year acreage reserve portion of the farm soil bank program lapse without renewal; reduce the federal share of contributions to public assistance payments (e.g., medical care and old-age allotments); and end federal spending in the fields of vocational education and such minor federal programs as water pollution control...
...said the testimony of three military experts who have appeared before his subcommittee at closed-door sessions indicated production rates for these space age weapons should and could be stepped...
...Admirable Crichton (Columbia) seemed a fine piece of social satire to an age that was concerned with keeping the servants in their place. Much of the humor is inevitably lost on a generation that can't get servants in the first place. But somehow, despite the ravages of time and more than 50 years of amateur performances, this British adaptation of Sir James Barrie's play is well worth watching as a pretty lesson in the minor art of monocle farce...
...mind-clogging avalanche of scholarly quotes, furrow-browed Columnist (New York Post) Max Lerner, 55, says much the same thing in his physically massive (1,036 pages) survey of America as a Civilization. The unavowed note of irony is that, like many a liberal-leftist prodigal son of the age, Lerner, who regularly scoffed at the U.S. in the '30s and '40s as a house of cards, now treats it as a house of worship...
...scenes of life at Harvard. At the same time, presumably, diligent young men were burrowing away at film archives around the nation in an attempt to discover motion pictures of the late and great of Harvard College. The result is the featurette now playing at the Exeter--To the Age That Is Waiting...