Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flight of the sputnik meant that Russian science had matured and that, very likely a new generation of Russian scientists had come of age. German specialists have been employed in Russia, as in the U.S., but most of them have by now been sent home or are being used as teachers. Russian missile technology has risen far above the wartime German level. The Russians are now on their...
...eyebrows dance up her forehead while the other is kept immobile. Fourteen Eye Movements. Mangalore-born Dancer Rao functions from her painted soles through her tinkling, braceleted ankles, right up to the bejeweled crown of her coal-black hair. She began training for her art at the age of twelve, when she started practicing the 14 principal movements of the eyes every morning at 2:30 and finished her dance exercises every night at 11. At 16 she relaxed, did not start her day's work until 5:45 a.m., nowadays still begins at the same hour. A fanatic...
...Harvard movie, "To the Age that is Waiting," will be shown at cities along the route. It is narrated by President Pusey and Dean Bundy, with a script by novelist John P. Marquand, '15. The film includes shots of some of the "greats" of Harvard's past--Presidents Eliot, Lowell, and Conant, professors Kittredge, Copeland, and Hooton, as well as "John the Orange Man" and the "goodies" who cleaned the student rooms. The film also shows the work of modern Harvard scholars and scientists, and the growing needs of the college...
...confided, "has become what Greenwich Village never was. North Beach is an American Left Bank. Small, maybe, but in spirit a cultural frontispiece extending from San Francisco to San Simeon." With a flourish of the hand, he proceeded to reel off a list of names--poets of the technological age, bar-room bohemians and prophets of the "beat, sad-brown and breathless generation...
Metal Fatigue. The years pass; the people age as if dipped in a Max Factor makeup kit; and Author Caldwell has ample opportunity to punctuate her chapters with page-long diatribes in favor of God, the Fourth of July, the U.S. Constitution ("I worry only about the Amendments"), and against Satan, Communism, the graduated income...