Word: agee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senatorial candidates preceded McCarthy on the rostrum--John J. Gilligan of Ohio, who defeated incumbent Frank Lausche in the Democratic primary, and Paul O'Dwyer of New York. O'Dwyer said a volunteer army should be put in place of the draft, the voting age should be lowered to 18, and "we should take the foreign policy of John Foster Dulles and scrap it once...
Soccer has been a lifelong preoccupation with Bogovich. He began playing in Yugoslavia at the age of six. Playing mostly defense in his early years, he started as a fullback and then moved to goalic...
...eventually a white-supremacist Senator (Keenan Wynn) gets changed into a Negro. At the end, when everybody joins hands to shout out the coda, it is clear that this classic stage musical has wrinkled into senility. Perhaps, like the inhabitants of Shangri-La, it was condemned to instant old age the minute it left its proper environment...
...image of its history as a tapestry of continued progress. Part biography, part intellectual history, part scholarly polemic, the volume is a sharp but generous inquiry into the underlying conceptions of American history and the reasons for writing it. Hofstadter, who has twice won the Pulitzer Prize (for The Age of Reform and Anti-Intellectualism in American Life), only rarely lapses into the repetitions of a professor who can never be quite sure that the whole class really attended his previous lecture...
They had much else in common. Born in the 1860s and early 1870s, brought up in the Midwest (Turner in Wisconsin, Beard in Indiana, Parrington in Kansas), all of them came of age at a time when the balance of power and influence was shifting from the effete East to the still raw and resentful Midwest. The financial panic of 1893 was in the making. The Populist movement was galvanizing Westerners and farm folk everywhere into a struggle against big money and big-city interests...