Word: agee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tolerant of misbehavior. About some aspects of adolescent life his new book reveals him as tartly oldfashioned. He abhors early dating, for example. "The ones who enjoy such spectacles as paired parties for twelve-year-olds, padded bras for eleven-year-olds, and going steady for an ever younger age are adults to whom the clumsiness of children looks cute." He is against marijuana, at least until harsh legal penalties are relaxed, and urges parents to suggest moderate alternatives when teenage behavior is likely to hurt others. He approvingly quotes a father who told his son: "If you feel high...
...that formula was never entirely true, but it was tidy enough to shape the thought of a schoolboy. In the true sense of the meaning of Renaissance, it can be argued, an earlier rebirth occurred at the end of the 11th and the beginning of the 12th centuries. The age produced in its cathedrals perhaps the greatest architecture yet contrived and, less widely recognized, a powerful vocabulary of sculpture...
...dramatic actions nevertheless seem metaphysically resonant, touched by overtones of primitive brooding. Flannery O'Connor's achievement is all the more remarkable?not to say miraculous ?because of her meager literary output. She was just 39 years old when she died five years ago. Incurably ill from the age of 26, she had only been able to publish two short novels (Wise Blood and The Violent Bear It Away) and a single collection of short stories (A Good Man Is Hard to Find). Now her steadfast friends have made a collection of her nonfiction prose...
Shopper's Paradise. Shannon, where the idea of duty-free shops originated in 1952, is close to Schiphol in range and price. It opened in the era of prop planes, when a refueling stop was a must on a transatlantic flight. The jet age brought a temporary drop in Shannon's business, but last year 714,000 passengers passed through, nearly double the number in the peak pre-jet years. The thought of picking up an authentic Aran Islands sweater for $19.50, a genuine Irish tweed sports jacket for $32, or a hand-crocheted christening shawl...
From makeshift booths where travelers could pick up whisky or cigarettes, duty-free shops at international airports have blossomed within a few years into bazaars of the jet age. Bargain-hunting is now one of the expected rewards of a flight abroad, and as the travel season begins in earnest with the coming of June, it will be the source of rich business for airport authorities, who usually lease the shops to private entrepreneurs. The goods that they offer are as varied as diamonds at Amsterdam's Schiphol, fur hats ($10 to $75) at Moscow's Sheremetyevo...