Word: agee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...debutante balls during my first London season." By the time he left his Scottish home to study medicine, he had cropped his hair and begun to wear male clothing. But officially, it was as a woman that he took his degree and went into general practice in Scotland. At age 40, he decided he had had enough. He reregistered his birth, as male, and a month later married his housekeeper...
...four day talks was no less than "the United States: its Problems, Image and Impact in the World." The discussion allotted one day to the internal problems of the U.S., one day to the character of the post-industrial society (Daniel Bell's phrase for a coming age of plenty and leisure), one day to the problems of U.S. foreign policy, and one day to the cultural future of the world. For obvious reasons, much of the scheduled exchange fell back upon generalizations which were assumed to begin with...
...other colleges and universities of our nation. "The first flower of our wilderness and the star of our night," Harvard has become, through three centuries of educational experience, the model for almost every other institution of higher learning in this nation and abroad. But it is not age alone that has made Harvard so respected and influential but, more importantly, the fact that, in her approach and in her solution to so many problems, Harvard has invariably done the right and reasonable thing. In her continual striving for "Veritas," she has acted neither from haste or from pressure, but only...
Turco's hockey career started in the Pee Wee program also, but he had begun skating at the age of three. He played varsity football, baseball, and hockey for Melrose High School, and then applied and was accepted at Harvard. He decided, however, that he wanted to take an extra year at prep school, and so he deferred his acceptance at Harvard for one year...
...didactic theater, nothing is so important as this. John Tatlock as Schweyk and Gerard Shepherd as his gluttonous companion Baloun are admirable, though I wished in each case for certain qualities of size, and especially of what can only be called earthiness--which only actors of considerably more age and experience can be expected to convey. Among the ladies, Jan Gough does especially well as as Frau Anna Kopecka: her presence is grand although some of her readings could be sharpened in urgency. She and Nancy McGill carry most of the songs, and both deliver the remarkable Hanns Eisler tunes...