Word: agee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ralph T. Esterquest, Harvard's Medical Librarian since 1958, died Saturday at the age...
...never slept in it. For the story of Vaux-le-Vicomte is of an older man who overreached himself. The man was Nicolas Fouquet, an urbane nobleman who had become France's Finance Minister a year before the young Louis was crowned at the age of 15. He thought of Louis as a young whippersnapper, and with some justice he felt he had been of more service to the state. Renowned as a courtier, conversationalist and diplomat, he had devised dozens of ingenious schemes to finance France's war with Spain, and when he decided to build himself...
Polish avant-gardist. Grotowski argues that theater exists to shatter taboos that separate man from himself. The relentless iconoclasm of the age has pretty much destroyed religious, political and social taboos. According to Grotowski, only the human body retains an aura of sanctity that lends itself to exposure, shock and outrage...
When Sir Harold Nicolson died last May at 81, enfeebled by age and prolonged illness, he was only vaguely aware that the first two volumes of his diaries and letters had brought him a quality of fame that had eluded him all his life. Perhaps the knowledge that he was being hailed as a Pepys to his age and peers might have struck him as an odd and final irony. "To be a good diarist," he once observed, "one must have a little snouty sneaky mind...
Even today, he is not angry at recent Russian actions, says Papousek. In this age of the Cold War, Russia must be expected to try to hold her alliances together...