Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Signed an order freeing members of the military Ready Reserve (including National Guardsmen) from the draft. Previously, draft-age (18½ to 26) Ready Reservists were subject to call if they had not had two years of active duty under Selective Service. The order came on the advice of Selective Service Director Lewis B. Hershey, who told the President that recent small monthly draft calls have left available a large pool of non-reserve men for 1-A classification...
...19th century Church of England. Now published in England is Baring-Gould's biography, Onward Christian Soldiers, by Anglican Clergyman William Purcell (no kin to 17th century Composer Henry Purcell). It is the story of a cleric who makes the busiest writing parson of the tape-recorder age seem like a sluggard...
Baring-Gould was past 30 when he fell in love with the 16-year-old daughter of a mill hand (she had gone to work in the mill herself at the age of ten). In his first novel, Baring-Gould described the experience: "He felt the peace of his mind was bound up with that little girl. How this had come about he could not tell. And now, his heart was full of strange cravings, his soul yearning with indescribable earnestness for one who was not his equal in station and education...
Citation: "A quick and restless mind, a profound understanding of charity, a winning sense of humor and a radiance of manner-these attributes make her one of the outstanding women of our age...
...Gogh's age when he committed suicide) Mondrian had almost paralleled Van Gogh's artistic progress. The catalyst that changed Mondrian was his discovery of cubism. (He simplified not only his style but also his name-from Mondriaan.) While he had previously drawn trees that were obviously trees, he now produced the segmented Apple Tree in Bloom (see color page), a lyric, rhythmic design of orchestrated nuances and subtle harmonies. Even more dramatic evidence of his progression lies in his rare self-portraits: in 1900 he saw himself as a religion-seeker, with deep, glowing eyes (a pose...