Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...homes have registered nurses on their staffs; in several states only 40% to 50% of the homes have R.N.s, while in Wyoming and Oklahoma "the home with a registered nurse is practically nonexistent." ¶ The inmates desperately need care. Only 10% are under 65, and the median age is 80. About half cannot walk, or can do so only with help; 20% are confined to bed; more than half are mentally confused, and one-third cannot control bladder and bowels. More than a third are suffering from the aftereffects of heart attacks or strokes. Yet in half the states studied...
...composition, dramatic in detail. It speaks-screams-of fate's flashing changes. An ordinary man overboard suddenly confronts the jaws of death. No softening atmosphere mists the facts. No historical, mythologic or literary connotations blur the issue. For sheer pity and terror, the picture stands alone in its age, when art either eulogized, moralized or titillated...
...Small-town youngsters do more dating at an earlier age (beginning at 14 for girls) than their big-city cousins. They are also quicker to "go steady." ¶ Teen-agers laugh at parents' fears that rock 'n' roll is a menace to morals. They regard it merely as a "revved-up version of the Charleston or Lindy hop." What impresses editors more than such findings is Gilbert's pitch, backed by statistics, that "your future circulation depends on this youth market." Gilbert and his newspapers assume that young people are just as curious as their eternally...
...town for the newspaper. To launch his publishing career, Kaplan set up a nonprofit company, brought in David Bernstein, 41, onetime newsman (Ithaca Journal-News) and public-relations specialist, who organized the Office of Public Information of the Philippines in 1945. Bernstein gathered a ten-man editorial staff (average age: 35), put in a U.P. news wire, nine comic strips, twelve syndicated columns. "The paper," he says, "is strictly independent. Mr. Kaplan wants and has absolutely no editorial control...
...traditional wisdom." Like most honest thinkers, he values the best of man's past and rebels against the notion "that the end of man is gratification of carnal appetite." He is convinced that the "social order now exhibits the symptoms of advanced decay" and is moving into "an Age of Gluttony." Who is to check the deterioration? Not, thinks Kirk, the materialistic liberals who, like the old Russian intellectuals, thought they were emancipated when "they were merely unbuttoned." He thinks it is a job for conservatives, and that the U.S. is the strongest bastion of conservatism left...