Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also spoke of the role of money and material wealth in the coming age of automation, stating that "work and leisure must be evaluated in Christian terms...
Rufus is at an age when he can feel this duplicity of love and hate in the concrete, sensual way of children--and poets--without forgetting its reality through the over self-consciousness of adult introspection. The development into this state is what marks the process of his growing up. Agee traces this growth through the boy's encounter with new words. At first "concussion" is an interesting sound, harsh and hard. Then he learns it is connected with a blow, just as it sounds, and that it is what killed his father. "Chariot," in "Swing low sweet chariot...
...Packard had stuck to his expressed purpose, there would not have been overly much to complain about in his book. But he did not write only an informative exploration, he made his book a sermon. He appears to be appalled obviously by these discoveries and techniques of the advertising age and seeks to instill this horror in his readers...
Speaking on the topic "Our Intellectual Age," Miller asserted that "these may not be times to try men's souls as in other times, but they are certainly times to try men's minds. The strength of Christianity lies in finding spokesmen who can move freely on the intellectual frontiers...
...does, of course, sing very well. He is quite effective as a night-club singer who substitutes his conquests over women for a financially prosperous existence. When Sinatra tells an unwilling chorus girl, "If you knew what you were throwing away, you'd cut your throat," hundreds of middle-age matrons nod silent agreement...