Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John Tucker Murray '99, professor of English emeritus, and noted authority on Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, died last Friday in California, at the age...
There is great doubt, moreover, that the President would be able to put forward even his present program during the coming four years, and he surely would get less support from Congress in the future than he has in the past. His age, his health, and the Constitution's prohibition of a third term all combine to force him into the role, not of a moulder of party policy, but of a popular, but passive mouthpiece. Already in the present campaign, his so-called "truth squads," led by Joe Martin and William Knowland, give more of a clue...
Former University educator and famed author and humanitarian Rollo W. Brown died in Cambridge this weekend at the age of 76. He was a central figure in the cultural and intellectual life of this area for over a third of a century...
...while away the time. Or perhaps he writes them, since he keeps the stub of a pencil, sharpened at both ends, and a notebook in his room. One story concerns Mr. Saposcat (Sapo for short, and Homo sapiens, of course) and his wife, who worry about whether their teen-age son will pass some sort of exam. Another is about a farm family that happens to bury a mule. Even though Malone becomes Saposcat temporarily, these episodes dribble into nothingness in keeping with Beckett's conviction that life is essentially nonsense...
...nuance, there are. still revelations. A woman determinedly denies her love to her stepchild with the noble but misguided intent of preserving the child's love for his real mother; she ends by alienating the child from both. Enemies, a study of the egoism of old age, suggests that the old relish nothing so much as the death of fellow oldsters...