Word: agee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said, "to the students and the deans and their views before making decisions. But I do not anticipate any overnight changes." Maine's Steven Hughes, a 26-year-old political-science major, sees his role in much the same way as his 14 older colleagues, whose average age is 57. "My interests won't be much different," he says...
...purist. In an era of innovation, he was a disciplinarian. He found shapes for the new possibilities of glass and steel, and the architecture of the world has never been the same since. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, who died in Chicago last week at the age of 83, never realized the extent of his fame. "It is bad to be too famous," he once remarked. "Greek temples, Roman basilicas arid medieval cathedrals are significant to us as creations of a whole epoch rather than as works of individual architects. Who asks for the names of these builders...
Died. Zaddie Bunker, 81, known as "the flying great-grandmother," who went buzzing off into the wild blue at an age when most of her contemporaries were shopping for rocking chairs; of cancer; in Palm Springs, Calif. Mrs. Bunker was 65 when she earned her pilot's license; a year later she took off on the first of three transcontinental solo flights ("Motoring just isn't safe enough," she explained) and at 71 rode through the sound barrier in an Air Force F-100F Super Sabre. Two years ago, she even applied to be an astronaut. "I could...
Rise of the Interests. When the New Deal was launched in 1933, a new age of liberalism seemed about to be born. After long years of struggle with private interests, liberals in favor of big government* were now in control. In their hands, government swelled enormously and impinged on individual lives as never before. But things were not as they seemed, says Lowi. Rather than effectively applying federal power, the liberals were paradoxically parceling it out to a variety of special interests-some old, some new and better organized. It was not the Federal Government but blocs of farmers...
...counting her twinges to old Vebber Stevens at the pig farm. Elizabeth Rust, who truly loves her husband, might be making love to Jimmy Clancy at the motel. Down by the quarry, Kenneth Borgstrom, a schoolboy, might be making love to Eunice Dewsnap, a nurse. And Tony DiLuzio, teen-age Lothario, might be making love to just about anybody just about anywhere...