Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With an almost audible sigh of relief, Great Britain last week laid down its role of policeman to the world, and in one bold step advanced into the nuclear age, where its troops will be fewer, its weapons deadlier, and its costs lower. In doing so, Britain almost gratefully abandoned its claim, which has sounded increasingly hollow even to British ears, to rank with the world's two major military powers...
...good will toward men," says the King James version, and the Catholic Douay Bible has it "peace to men of good will." Now in the scrolls the idiom is found in its original form: "good will to men of [God's] favor," i.e., the elect in the apocalyptic age...
...their desert retreat as symbolizing the desert wanderings of the Jews under Moses. And their asceticism was not for its own sake but a preparation for the new dispensation. Like the first Christians they held all things in common, looking forward to the characteristics of life in the New Age: unity, brotherhood, love. They identified themselves, the Congregation of the Poor, with the "meek who shall inherit the earth...
Even before she began to tick off her troubles, the contestant was obviously teetering on the brink of a good cry. She barely had time to tell how she had raised her three teen-age boys all by herself when Master of Ceremonies Jack Bailey shoved her over the edge with a deft flick of folksiness. "Why," he chirped with chipmunk cheeriness. "you don't look much over...
...what amounts to a major shift in Japanese national taste, an almost forgotten Confucian scholar named Tomioka Tessai, who died in 1924 at the age of 88, is emerging as Japan's most popular painter since the Ukiyo-e masters of the 17th and 18th centuries. What makes his sudden rise to fame so surprising is that Tessai's work boldly departs from the polish and finish of Japan's professional, court-painting tradition. Instead, he used a rough, impulsive brushwork that often seems closer to the West than to the Orient...