Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jubilee dates from Radcliffe might have proved somewhat persnickety that year, since they felt they had come of age: the 'Cliffe was about to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary. The Edgeworth Tobacco Company, realizing that this attitude was indicative of national womanhood, kept cheering up Harvard men by telling them that, no matter what else the women had taken away, they could take away his pipe. "She'll never smoke a pipe," the company crowed in countless CRIMSON ads; that item is "one pet diversion our little friends keep their fingers...
...Age of Anxiety...
Deputies remembered that a year ago Mollet had forced through a 105 billion franc program of old age pensions and paid vacations and still had a proposal to socialize medicine on his books. The temptation was too great to resist: in the constituencies a vote against Mollet on the budget would not be a vote against the Algerian war (which most Deputies favor) but a vote against high taxes and against Socialist experiments...
...Democratic bystander gave the answer: "Modern Republicanism is excitingly and dynamically conservative. It is neither inflexibly traditional nor discordantly progressive. It is at once distinctive and secure, but never overwhelming or confining. It has dignity, quality and dependability. It is designed for men and women of early middle age with an income of over $25,000 a year and a net worth of at least $75,000." The astonished reporter, according to Kefauver, gasped: "Where did you ever get that?" "Simple," replied the explicit Democrat. "I took it right out of an ad for Lincoln Continental...
This collection contains a few selected letters to Joyce as well as hundreds from him. The first, written in 1901 when Joyce was 19, is a reverent birthday greeting to Henrik Ibsen and glows with optimism about the dawning age of "enlightenment." The last, written in 1940, three weeks before Joyce's death, is a note of thanks to the mayor of Zurich for giving Joyce and his family asylum from the Nazi war machine. It reflects the "painful times" on which the age of enlightenment has fallen...