Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your May 27 article on Picasso, assisted by wonderful reproductions, will be of much help in aiding the readers to understand and appreciate him. Picasso's art truly manifests the spirit of our wondrous age. No artist before him has been able to portray emotion on canvas in such...
...History of European Morals, written in Victorian England in 1869. Said Lecky, "Of that Byzantine Empire, the universal verdict of history is that it constitutes, with scarcely an exception, the most thoroughly base and despicable form that civilization has yet assumed... The Byzantine Empire was preeminently the age of treachery." It has taken many years to overcome the stigma of Victorian moralism, and Byzantinology will probably never receive the vogue accorded Greek and Roman civilization in the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries...
Today "the age that is waiting before" presses harder than ever on the crust of conservatism that has always surrounded Harvard with tradition. For several years college administrators throughout the country have been looking with alarm at the problems facing them in the next decade, when the now legendary deluge of "war babies" will flood admissions offices with applications for college entrance...
...national population at college age now stands at about eight and a half million; in 1970, according to present estimates, it will be over 13.6 million. And of those 13.6 million, 4.6 million will be enrolled in college, a rise of 130 per cent over this year's total...
...could not be denied that having dabbled in every age he was better prepared to discuss English Literature with his friends and to discourse learnedly about the Western tradition. The only difficulty here was that once freed from the Harvard influence he never discussed anything of the sort, and the things which had meaning to him alone were buried in this mass of external tradition...