Word: agee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...women, 50 to 60 years old, of which Elizabeth was one. In all, there were four old women. Second, there were the young women, 30 to 35 years old. There were three young women. In a way the boy found the young women uglier than the old women. Age, he knew, had a beauty of its own; but these three--the young women--had none: they were dumpy and flabby and sexless, and at this point the ugliest of them spoke...
...college campuses. Some say it is because the present generation of young people, raised aloft on an unprecedented wave of idealism, understandably react negatively when frustrated in their desire to achieve instant reform. But this cannot be an acceptable or sufficiently mature stance in men and women of college age. Nor do the young alone have reason to feel put upon. It takes no youthful perception to see that there is much in this period about which to be both worried and discontented, even angered. All of us are tormented by the war in Vietnam and its recalcitrant opposition...
...admit more students of promise from urban and rural wastelands. The Law School, the Divinity School, and (in cooperation with Yale and Columbia) the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and also the Business School, have in recent years conducted summer programs for disadvantaged minority groups of college age to identify students capable of doing advanced work and to encourage them to embark upon graduate and graduate-professional studies. Last summer a parallel Faculty Audit Program brought 25 teachers from predominantly Negro institutions here for summer study and observation. But the heightened interest shown throughout the University last year...
...Thug version of Cosa Nostra might have gone on for more generations had it not been confronted by William Sleeman, who came out to India as a Bengal army officer in 1809 at age 21. He didn't smoke, and he soon became a teetotaler. His only known thirst was for work, and that was regarded by his compatriots as unquenchable. In that wilting climate there was something of the untemptable Anglo-Saxon saint about Sleeman, as well as "something near to ruthlessness...
Much arch commentary, however, edges toward Oscar Wilde: "He even felt glad that he had suffered a little. One must try everything once." Provocative (especially to an age notably short of elegant abuse), nearly always interesting as a tour de force, The Girls lacks narrative substance, a problem of form inevitable, perhaps, in books put together mainly from letters, excerpts from notebooks, oddments of thought and author's asides. The chief irony of The Girls, though, is that Costals, who keeps asserting that creative man must free himself from the constricting influence of women, ends by falling victim...