Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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EVERY PRESENTATION of full-fledged classical ballet is to some degree an exercise in anachronism. Performer and audience alike must willfully assume the aesthetic judgement of another age. Offered wholeheartedly, a classical performance works on us with the poignant clarity of emotional truth; done poorly, it ranges from the banal to the ridiculous. The problem is one of authenticity, and has less to do with execution of movement than with a state of mind...
...trained newsmen. One of the first of that breed to join the magazine was Eben Roy Alexander, who came to TIME in 1939 as a veteran reporter from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. As managing editor from 1949 to 1960, he in a sense led TIME into its age of fully professional journalism. When "Alex" died last week, at 79, both old associates and younger staff members who know him only as a legend paid tribute to an extraordinary journalist and an extraordinary...
...recession is destined no matter what the Administration may do. "There is no such thing as an uninterrupted period of expansion," says James H. Lorie, a professor of business administration at the University of Chicago. "The current expansion is 3½ years old. So it's past middle age. A downturn has got to be next." Some observers feel that it would be better to have a recession sooner rather than later. Says Washington University's Murray Weidenbaum, also a member of TIME'S Board of Economists: "We've now taken the painful medicine that will...
Tomorrow's football game at Penn presents something of a new twist on the age-old Philadelphia joke: Q: What's worse than a free trip to Philadelphia with the Ivy League title at stake? A: A free trip to Philadelphia without the title at stake...
...plot of Superman smacks of what we have all sopped up since age seven from DC Comics. All the familiar characters are there, along with a few new faces--Max Mencken (remember H.L.) the sleazy reporter for the Daily Planet; Dr. Abner Sedgwick, a frustrated mad scientist from the Metropolis Institute of Technology (MIT); and the Flying Lings, a threesome of oriental acrobats...