Word: agee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CARATS is precisely the sort of show that people always say they want to see in order to forget the trials and tribulations of the day. The comedy stars Julie Harris as a half-smitten, half-reluctant lady, ardently wooed by Marco St. John, a lad almost half her age...
...inaugural address was at times pushing the necessity of mankind's working together and accepting one another, but Jesus Christ, in his three-year term, pushed it much harder and stronger. Here in America, we have a heritage of hymn-singing, churchgoing Christianity, but I think the age demands that we start acting like Christians...
...first generation of civil rights leaders is passing into middle age. Farmer, 48, has retained much of his fire and most of his hair. He speaks deeply and slowly, in tones that Everett Dirksen might envy, confident of his audience, very much at ease with them. He is a man used to power. He likes to share a story, and there is in him a politician's love for the trivia of American history...
...knows that Joe Nuxhall was the youngest pitcher to appear in a major league game, but, Harvard sports tradition to the contrary, a mere appearance in a game does not constitute a win. The sorry fact is that in his premature debut with the Reds in 1944 at the age of 15, Nuxhall established a firm precedent for such successors as George Plimpton by undergoing a merciless pounding from the then as now champion Cardinals. He did not again appear on the major league scene until 1951, when he won his first game at the ripe old age...
...speaker is President Johnson, sounding the keynote address for Greetings, an anti-Establishment comedy of draft-age youth. In search of form, the movie pretends to cover the adventures of three men marking time before they get their "Greetings" from the draft board. In fact, the flip sketches never cohere into a whole picture; Greetings' vitality and weakness are both due to its inability to concentrate on any subject for more than a moment...