Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Colin, age four, "has a lightness of touch and a dexterity that will certainly put him on top of the heap if he ever takes up safe-cracking." His twin, Johnny, is a victim of the chaos and disorder which exist to be-wilder the precise mind. "Indeed," Mother reports, "if one of the beans on his plate is slightly longer than the others he can scarcely bear to eat it." The youngest child is fortunately only seventeen months old and only gurgles and smiles. His parents nevertheless have great hopes that he will grow up to be as eccentric...
...small-town world of his 1920s childhood. In a rambling old house it portrays a middle-class family; there is a slightly crude, life-speckled traveling salesman (Pat Hingle) who loves but forever collides with his gently exasperating wife (Teresa Wright). There is their unconfident, boy-frightened teen-age daughter; there is their small son, who can be hard and soft in the wrong places. Everybody, including the wife's sister (Eileen Heckart) and her dentist husband, is so outwardly recognizable, so comfortably life-sized and so frequently good for a laugh that, regardless of bank balances or growing...
...keep them constantly challenged. "A kindergarten child with an IQ of 135," says Alma, "is about 6½ years old. You can't keep a child like that interested in finger painting all year." Each pupil proceeds at his own pace, whether doing work normal for his age or work one or two years in advance. But the McCormicks have added some special features. All children take, judo and ballet lessons to develop muscular control. They have visited the College of Puget Sound to hear a lecture on satellites, each Tuesday afternoon play host to a foreign student from...
...number of resident students matriculated in the fall of 1955 showed a decrease of 5% over the previous year, while the number admitted to correspondence courses showed an increase of nearly 28%, suggests an increasing pressure forcing the Soviet government to channel the greatest possible number of the student-age population into the labor force...
...excellent new Columbia disk) and trying to imagine what a choreographer could possibly make of it. Here and there the music suggests images of human activity. Fanfares sound: Are they bugle calls for some grand but ragged army? A truncated funeral march is heard: Is a man or an age being mourned? A troubadour's mandolin sounds a little sour: Is love being mocked? A saraband starts up, accompanied by a simulated harpsichord: Are the ghosts of vanished dancers being recalled...