Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...besides, Dean Sherman jokingly continued, the days of the present off-campus frame houses are numbered, for the present ones may "soon collapse from age anyway...
...with quantity. Not since the days when such lithographers as Toulouse-Lautrec, Bonnard, Vuillard and Signac were at work has the outlook been so bright. Says Cincinnati's Print Curator Gustave von Groschwitz: "The current boom will equal and already looks as if it will surpass the golden age of the 1890s...
...most enduring was the late Aline Bernstein, a theatrical designer with a son Wolfe's age, who became Esther Jack in The Web and the Rock. The present volume contains none of Wolfe's personal letters to her, since Aline Bernstein had intended to edit them herself. But there are enough letters to other women to indicate the line of Wolfe's attachments: first, his passionate onslaught; then his impatience on achieving (or failing to achieve) success; finally, his fairly brutal and exhaustively documented disillusion. Like many young men, Wolfe talked longingly of marriage until it seemed...
Maurice Druon's lucidly written novel (the first of a series to be called The Accursed Kings) plunges deep into a time when man's life was full but brutally short, when kingdoms were often handed to adolescents who, "hardly grown out of the age in which it is fun to tear wings from flies, might now amuse themselves by tearing the heads from men.'' Such precocious youngsters crowded Philip's court. Two of his three sons were deceived by their highborn wives, who paid for their sins with shaven skulls and imprisonment, while their...
...said that the individual's opportunities to develop his personality are endangered by "this age of bigness--the age of vast assembly lines, giant corporations, huge office buildings, vast and sprawling suburbs of vast and sprawling cities." The governor waxed political when he added that "Joe Smith is in competition with General Motors...