Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...relatively short time ago only five percent of the college-age group were applying, but this figure has risen to 30 percent at the present time...
...selecting from the large number of applicants for the relatively few places at the 50 leading colleges and, particularly, Harvard. He explained the applications pressure by both "an almost obscene desire on the part of the American public to procreate" and a sharp rise in the percent of college-age youths actually applying to colleges...
Pollard believes that Western culture oscillates between its Judaeo-Christian roots and its Graeco-Roman roots. At most times it is so firmly embedded in one tradition that the other cannot even be understood. Thus the Middle Ages Christianized Aristotle, while the modern age has secularized Jesus. In certain eras, the dominant viewpoint is no longer adequate for coping with reality, and men again grasp the full meaning of the alternative, thereby creating a mysterious Rennaissance. Thus the Alexandrine world was converted to Christianity; thus the Middle Ages were converted to Hellenism; thus the modern Alexandria will be converted once...
...ancient Greeks saw. But the note originally struck is muted: the brilliant colors with which the Greeks painted their statues have rubbed off the marble, and the burnished-gold hue of the bronzes has tarnished. Nonetheless, like buildings whose stone façades take on a glowing quality with age, the Greek bronzes may be no less winning for their centuries-mellowed patina...
...European charge of ubiquitous vulgarity, and will bear the tag of "The New Rome" peaceably. But they will bridle at the suggestion that they are about to embrace a Caesar. Author de Riencourt traces what he takes to be an imperial growth of presidential power from the age of Jackson to Franklin Roosevelt, who, he says, was symbolically offered the kingly crown that Caesar, on the Lupercal, "did thrice refuse." To a Cleveland crowd during the 1940 campaign, Roosevelt said that, when the next four years were over, "there will be another President," upon which the crowd started to shout...