Word: agee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Smear. The difference in outcome reflected no difference in generational outlook. No. 1 Son echoes his father's conservatism and, on one issue at least, is even farther to the right. While Barry Sr. favors lowering the voting age to 18, his son opposes the change. That kind of talk goes down well in the 27th District. Though registered Democrats enjoy a slight edge over Republicans, voters there customarily prefer conservatives of either party. Van de Kamp, 33, a former Justice Department lawyer whose family founded bakeries and restaurants throughout the state, proved to be almost as rightward-thinking...
...French have nothing against grandeur, but it demands an austerity that has nothing to do with their current mood. Contemporary France is moving rapidly, almost visibly, into the age of mass-consumer, pop-culture society, and the last thing it wants is austerity. The evidence of that attitude is almost everywhere. The France of sunny sidewalk cafés and smoky boîtes is now, also, the France of 536 Wimpy hamburger mills, dizzy discothéques and monumental traffic jams. Vacationers on the Côte d'Azur looking for bargain accommodations now stop at modern motels as well...
Some of its rules, moreover, seemed out of joint with France in any age. The cradle of modern revolution and free speech had, through the Gaullists' abuse of their power over the state-owned radio and television networks, one of the free world's most tightly controlled public information centers. Politicians who opposed De Gaulle were rarely accorded air time, and pro-Gaullist propaganda assaults filled prime time during election campaigns. Another arbiter of public taste turned out to be De Gaulle's prudish wife Yvonne. For her influence in banning sex from TV, banishing dirty books from Left Bank...
...Pride of the Family." The family had gathered at Aristotle's seaside villa south of Athens to celebrate the 21st birthday of Alexander Onassis, heir apparent to his father's fortunes. Earlier, the soft Aegean wind had carried rumors that Alexander would commemorate his coming of age by defying his father and announce plans to marry New Zealand-born Fiona Thyssen, 36, his frequent companion and 16 years his senior. But Ari is a tough man to defy. When the birthday party moved on to a local bouzouki nightclub, Alexander asked his father, "May I take some whisky...
...life as in his art, Constable was a late bloomer. At the age of 33, he fell in love with Maria Ricknell, the 21-year-old granddaughter of a crusty, wealthy Stour Valley rector, who threatened to cut her out of his will if she married the impecunious painter. Prudently, Constable and Maria waited seven years. Finally, in 1816 his father died, leaving him with enough of an inheritance at 40 to marry and support a wife and children (they had seven). Virtually all Constable's greatest paintings were done after his marriage...