Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Government last week turned full face to enter the age of the satellite. It left behind the notions that no speedup was necessary in missile and satellite development, that the administrative organization of the defense establishment was satisfactory, that interservice rivalries were somehow healthy, that the budget remained sacrosanct even while Red moons spun through the sky. Just a few weeks before, President Eisenhower, asked at his press conference if he might name a special White House scientific adviser, replied: "I hadn't thought of that." Last week he not only appointed such an adviser but gave...
...product is often not good enough by half. Last week The Clouded Image doubled the odds by casting him as a pair of English twins named Peter and Gerald. Peter inherited the family estate because Gerald, his elder by half an hour, had disappeared at the age of 13 and was declared legally dead. Suddenly Granger as Peter was confronted by Granger as Gerald. But was Gerald genuine? Peter thought not, and for good reason: he had killed little Gerald by shoving him off a cliff. Gerald turned out to be a contrite fake, schooled in his masquerade...
...Age of Consolidation. Even so, the present generation recognizes no single voice as its very own. In so complex a world, no one voice, or even a chorus of voices, would be enough. Rather than take on any untried creative artists, the young prefer to read what the New Critics have to say about the artists of yesterday. Mailer and Jones have had their brief fling, such as it was. Colin Wilson never achieved any vogue at all. There is no cult of the "beat generation," and the San Francisco literary renaissance has scarcely begun to penetrate the ivy. "Maybe...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14--President Eisenhower and the National Security Council dug again today into the question of shaping the federal budget to the demands of space age defense...
When Columbus came to these islands in the early sixtenth century, they were virtually uninhabited with the exception of a few hostile stone-age tribes, the Caribs and the Arawaks. So the major part of the Indies' burgeoning population is descended from slaves brought in to work the sugar plantations...