Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past 28 years have traced the career of Queen Elizabeth from a girl of three (1929) to Woman of the Year (1953). This week TIME'S cover story reports on the man who has played a major part in making "this monarchy business work" in the modern age. See FOREIGN NEWS, The Queen's Husband...
...mother and father drifted gradually apart, each tragically confused and lost in memories of a futile past that could not be regained. His mother retired to a sanatorium in Germany; his father moved to Monte Carlo to nurse bitter memories until his death in 1944. At the age of nine, because his ardently Anglophile father insisted his son should be brought up as a proper Englishman, young Philip was shipped off to England to be reared by his mother's mother, the Dowager Marchioness of Milford Haven. She was a granddaughter of Queen Victoria and the widow of Prince...
Physicists Without Physics. "The present age of specialization has gone an unbelievable distance. Not only are we developing physicists who know no chemistry, physiologists who know no biology, but we are beginning to get [the physicist] who does not know physics. He proceeds at once to the subtleties of quantum theory without a good fundamental knowledge of classical mechanics or classical optics, even though in these fields many of the very same problems which confront him in the latest specialty already have appeared in a simpler and more perspicacious form...
...nations, seldom turns up in their theaters. One reason may be the problem of translation; another, the assortment of plays about Mary Stuart-Swinburne's, Drinkwater's, Maxwell Anderson's-that are in English already. Finally, 150-year-old classics have a way of showing their age...
...dialogue which accompanies these events shows a few infrequent flashes of wit, but for the most part vacillates between the dull and the incredible. "The legend of the Raintree is the age-old tale of man's quest for the unattainable.... It is the very tree of life to him who finds it. Its ways are the ways of pleasantness and its paths all lead to peace, to happiness, to the secret of life itself." The actors deserve no little credit for making this sort of twaddle sound much less unlikely on the screen than it looks in print...