Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Supplemental old-age assistance programs; the U.S. antes up from 40% to 75% of the payments made each year to half a million citizens to supplement their social security and state retirement funds...
...Stockton, Calif.'s College of the Pacific, where he coached for some years after the University of Chicago retired him because of old age in 1933, college football's famed Amos Alonzo Stagg attended a combined celebration of his own 95th birthday (Aug. 16), his wife's 81st birthday (Aug. 7), and their 63rd wedding anniversary next month...
...more despotically than the Los Angeles Examiner's asp-tongued James H. (for Hugh) Richardson. In a 20-year running feud with slow-moving staffers and half the officialdom of Los Angeles, one-eyed Jimmy Richardson (he lost his right eye in a slingshot accident at the age of seven) has driven a long parade of newsmen to pressagentry. the bottle-or to fame. He also bullied and blarneyed his way to more newsbeats than any other Hearst city editor, made the Examiner (circ. 350,739) Los Angeles' most readable daily and a clamor that echoes from...
...gentle landscapes -the first by an Italian to resemble the actual country, instead of arranged scenery -and the dogs, cats, cows, sheep, goats, asses, rabbits and doves that populated so many of his canvases. Italian critics were warm. "A maestro," exclaimed Il Popolo, "who recapitulated a whole golden age of painting...
...turned him from pleasant art to black indictments of man's inhumanity and fate's immutability. Believing that Napoleon's invasion of Spain in 1808 spelled liberation, Goya at first collaborated. Inevitable disillusion further deepened his pessimism. Malraux, too, had a severe comeuppance in middle age when his Communist leanings proved to have been a flirtation with the devil. Thereafter, he turned from adventuring and novel writing to art criticism, became the most eloquent, arrogant, febrile, haunting writer in the silent world of art. His new Saturn: An Essay on Goya (Phaidon; $10) illuminates a dark genius...