Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whipped by his father for stealing a penny from a church collection plate at the age of five. He once shot his sister Gloria in the fanny with a BB gun after she threw a wrench at him. He drove alone on highways for the first time at 13, and he had his first date at the same age. During his last week in high school, he played hooky and went to a movie; he was punished by not being chosen as valedictorian. He believed in UFOs as late as 1969, when he reported seeing one near a Lions Club...
...application of this approach to other areas and her willingness to speak out on almost any subject made her ideas-and her dumpy but 'somehow imposing figure topped by its . Buster Brown hairdo-famous around the world. By the time she died of cancer last week at the age of 76, Margaret Mead had become the grandmother of the global village, an all-wise matriarch whose often provocatively put, common-sense opinions were sought by millions. Her colleagues feel that no single individual will be able to fill her shoes. Says Paul Bohannan, president of the American Anthropological Association...
...half a century. In 1925 she sailed for Samoa with Boas' blessing and $1,000 from her father, and spent nine months observing the adolescent girls of three small coastal villages in the Manua Islands. The result of her study was published three years later as Coming of Age in Samoa...
Mead wrote her other books in the same easily understood idiom. Coming of Age was quickly followed by Growing Up in New Guinea, which she wrote in collaboration with her second husband, New Zealand Psychologist Reo Fortune. But anthropology alone could not satisfy her. A fluent speaker who rarely needed notes, she also carried a heavy teaching schedule, lecturing before enthusiastic classes at both Columbia and Fordham universities. She established a hall of the Peoples of the Pacific at the American Museum of Natural History, where she was curator of ethnology. She brought a keen, insatiably curious mind and anthropological...
Lowell Thomas, broadcaster, 86, on why octogenarians never finish talking: "After the age of 80, everything reminds you of something else...