Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...always good. I believe it was Tennyson that said: 'The old order changeth and giveth place to new lest one good custom should corrupt the earth.'* We have gotten into the type of civilization now where the Government must interest itself more in the old age security, in unemployment insurance, and all that sort of thing . . . I believe in it, I stand for it, and I don't care who brought...
...pilgrim read . . . the names of all the lands, stretching away to the ends of the Earth, that had been evangelized by a spiritual impetus issuing from this hallowed spot, he prayed that the spirit which had once created a Western Christian Civilization out of the chaos of the Dark Age might return...
Passionately addicted to self-scrutiny, the 20th century started out talking and worrying about its sex life with a nervous intensity that would have appalled earlier ages; it made prophets of Sigmund Freud, Havelock Ellis and that Baedeker of sexual abnormality, Richard von Krafft-Ebing. What remained was for someone to link the age's preoccupation with sex to its passion for statistics. That job was taken on, not surprisingly, by an American-Alfred Charles Kinsey of Bloomington, Ind., zoologist by training, who was determined to observe the sex behavior of the human animal with the scientific methods...
...right and wrong are not fixed values but mere fluctuating curves on a statistical graph. Thus "The Kinsey Report" became at once a radio comedian's joke and a hard-worked (and in many phases perhaps valuable) scientific contribution. It was also a fascinating moral symptom of its age...
Retirement Age. In Toronto, after he fined her $100, a magistrate advised 75-year-old grandmother Mrs. Alice Berthauane: "It's time you were getting out of the bootlegging business...