Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Henry A. Murray, professor of Clinical Psychology, highlighted the annual Phi Beta Kappa Society exercises yesterday, calling for "a new testament for a new age." Murray delivered the keynote oration before an audience of about a hundred members of the society and their guests in Sanders Theater...
...starve. But as citizens of France they demanded and got a raise in living standards toward mainland levels. Jobmaking new schools, hospitals, public buildings and government housing went up. Roads went down and quickly filled with Peugeots, Renaults and motor scooters. Literacy rose: in Martinique 99% of school-age children are in school, in Guadeloupe...
...dance has long since stopped stomping, clogging and jigging (redeye is still optional), has become a forceful matter of sliding steps and intricate patterns. Dancers came from as far away as Germany and Great Britain, and from 46 U.S. states, most of them young married couples or spry middle-aged folk. Most impressive proof that square dancers are not square but hip: George ("Pop") Singer, who last week was energetically chassezing right and allemanding left at the age...
...supports his wife and children on concurrent Guggenheim and Fulbright grants, rediscovered his own Chinese heritage in Rome, now turns out paintings of figures that one critic noted "look as though they are wrapped in dry leaves. If they moved, you could hear them crackle." In contrast with the age-old tradition of hiring a model and making her a mistress. St. Louis-born Sculptor Allen Harris, 34, who last year won Philadelphia's Da Vinci Gold Medal, uses his own shapely wife as a model. Minnesota-born Paul Granlund, 33, has sold enough work to pay for casting...
Schwartz is now working on a record about the prizefighting business, has plans for records on superstition, old age, the reasons why people move. Meantime, he continues to collect the bittersweet songs of the slum children...