Word: agee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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David Richman, a freshman at Harvard who has been blind all his life, started out in a residential school, but switched at an early age to a public school with special facilities for the blind, such as Braille lessons. After seventh grade David went through the regular public school system. He feels that this was the best thing he could have done. A residential school is a "very unreal environment," he said. "It is a closed stale society, ignorant of the outside world. The transition from a school for the blind to a sighted university is almost impossible...
...Tyranny with which it Rules our damnable Lives. Albee's irony is that society condemns moon-lighting as a call girl, but rewards the more pervasive practitioners of the art like the research chemist who perfects germ warfare or the publisher who exploits trash. And so we enter the Age of the Whore...
...success of A.P.'s Special Assignment Team demonstrates a journalistic truth that the daily press still too often ignores: in an age of complexity, depth is often more necessary than speed. This kind of reporting may be more expensive and more exacting, but its result is also more satisfying. Team Editor Stephens insists that "we're having more fun than anybody in this business...
These jigsaw pieces do not fit together into a neat picture. Dr. Robert H. Furman of the University of Oklahoma says that the dietary habits of men who have died of heart attacks, as compared with the diets of survivors of the same age, living on the same street, doing the same work, smoking as much and exercising as little, show no consistent difference. This means, to Furman, that the men who have heart attacks-in many cases, fatal-early in life are a metabolically distinct group. The trouble is that so far no one has found a quick test...
...that what the autobiography does for the life of a particular man, the novel must do for mankind. Gary needed every certitude of dedication to sustain a creative career that began late and even so, suffered from early neglect. When he published his first novel in 1932 (at the age of 43), he had already been struggling at his writing for nearly 20 years...