Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wednesday, May 3, solar activists across the nation will begin to celebrate "Sun Day" to mark what some of them call the "dawn of the solar age." Their aim is to convince more politicians, financiers and manufacturers that sun power has a glowing future. The celebrations, financed by organizations as diverse as the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Department of Energy and the United Auto Workers, will begin with songs of praise to the rising sun in Maine and include talks and solar-power demonstrations in just about every state. In a speech at Golden, Colo., on Sun Day, President Carter...
...date has, shall we say, limited resonance; it is the day on which James Dean, the sometime teen-age movie idol and potential rival to Brando, died in an auto accident. This movie, which is about how the news of his untimely demise affected a college student and his friends, has even less resonance-except, perhaps, as the most ridiculously bad movie in recent memory...
...film's failure stems from the desperate seriousness with which it regards its subject. It keeps insisting that Jimmy J.'s behavior is a sign of anti-bourgeois sensitivity rather than cretinism. This error is deepened by making him and his friends college-age. One might possibly accept this nonsense if the actors were young teenagers...
...look good." Lavery has also shone on his own. His long legs and short torso emphasize his speed, a quality prized by Balanchine, who has cast Sean in his new fast-paced work, Kammermusik No. 2. Born in Pennsylvania, Lavery started training as a Junior Olympics swimmer at age eight, got hooked on ballet at ten, and never looked back: "I am not bothered by what I have given up. I don't miss anything else...
Byron may have inspired the image of the archromantic. But it was François-René de Chateaubriand-writer, politician and Olympian lover-who lived it. Born in 1768 to a minor Breton nobleman, he came of age with the French Revolution. By the time he was 24, the Chevalier Chateaubriand had already journeyed to America in search of noble savages and exotic flora...