Word: agee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...protested against the Warsaw Pact invasion. Ironically, among those sentenced to a two-year prison term was a woman named Sandra Weigl. She is related to Playwright Bertolt Brecht, whose works reflected his hope that Communism would end man's inhumanity to man and usher in a new age of justice...
Michael Wood is now doing well, and will start kindergarten in January. When he is taken to Dr. Hendrick for a checkup, he trots in and prattles as fluently as the average tot of his age. If he still had all his brain, Michael would be paralyzed on his left side, walking lamely if at all, not talking, and suffering daily or more frequent seizures despite drug treatment...
...more frequent and severe. In such cases the cause is brain damage, but not as the result of birth injury. The damage may be the result of infection or biochemical poisoning during gestation and may appear as scarring of the brain. Similar effects may arise when children of any age suffer head injuries...
...Cushing was, more importantly, a pioneer ecumenicist in the open style of Pope John, a maverick prelate who found it possible, at various times, to endorse both the John Birch Society and the N.A.A.C.P. In poor health for many years-and, at 73, only two years away from the age limit suggested for episcopal resignations by Pope Paul-Cushing had good reason to ask to be relieved of duty. The Pope is said to have a high regard for Cushing and may well decide to refuse his resignation. On the other hand, if the cardinal mentioned illness or fatigue...
...life. Feminine sensibility in fiction is popularly supposed to deify feeling, but the better women novelists have customarily proved short on gush and coolly capable of dealing out the kind of cruel punishments that love gone wrong (or right) often seems to breed. It is hardly surprising, in this age when violence seems so fashionable, to find a handful of female writers, some celebrated, some not, skillfully spinning tales of love and death...