Word: agee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CENTURY has been so crowded that each generation seems like an entire age, and the Paris of the Twenties in the memoirs of Fitzgerald and Hemingway appears as remote to us as the literature of the nineteenth century must have been to them. Surrealism is no more than a riotous fantasy rooted in the past; the period between the Wars emerges as a violent dream...
...least 100 years. But with copiers and satellites, computers and jets compressing into minutes tasks that once took days, venerability has also accelerated. Manhattan Antique Dealer Sandy Burr holds an elegant wooden object, an art student's model of a woman's hand. "It has some age to it," he says. "Maybe 15 or 20 years...
...finest living ballet choreographers. "If Fred is in the English tradition," says Dame Margot Fonteyn, "that is because he is the one who made it." Like Balanchine, though, Ashton began in the Russian tradition. Born in Ecuador, the son of a British businessman, he began studying ballet at the age of 18. Two years later, he worked with the company of Marie Rambert, for whom he produced his first piece of choreography-a disastrous dance number in a review for which Author A. P. Herbert wrote the book...
Unhappily, the authority of great age is accompanied by a certain waywardness and windiness. Along with Toynbee's earlier book, Acquaintances, this one proposes to perform the office of autobiography. Too often it consists of lumbering opinions delivered ex one of the century's best-earned cathedras about everything from religion, war and death to "The Social Price of the New Technology of Farming in Iowa...
...concedes that most of those executed were clearly innocent, convicted on nothing more than "spectral evidence"-testimony that apparitions resembling the accused had tormented people-and the hysterical behavior of the teen-age girls who were the chief witnesses. Hansen notes that hysteria, as defined medically, can produce fits of supernormal violence, a vivid appearance that the sufferer is being choked, and psychosomatically induced "bite" and "pinch" marks on the skin. These were the main symptoms of the afflicted girls...