Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bate, who teaches the popular English 140b, "The Age of Johnson," won the National Book Crities Circle Award earlier this year for the same biography, published last fall...
Player's competitive fiber is legend. His father, who was mine captain of the Robinson Deep Mine in Johannesburg took him out for his first round at age 15. He parred the first three holes, and thereafter he dedicated himself to improving his game with demonic determination. Short and frail, he adopted a brutal regimen of calisthenics in order to increase his length...
...Sampler. The reading lists have been approved by some 20 professors at leading colleges. Their fields range from such traditional disciplines as art history, English literature and mathematics to such newer areas as film, black American history and women's studies. Sample topics: Oceanic art, the Gilded Age, psychosis...
...conversation. America's last known billionaire, the reclusive Daniel K. Ludwig, 80, who scraped together $25 at the age of nine to buy a sunken boat and now operates one of the world's largest shipping fleets, made a rare public appearance last week in Richmond, Va. The occasion was the transfer to the state of Virginia of Leesylvania, a 485-acre tract once in the hands of the Robert E. Lee family and later purchased by the Ludwig-controlled American-Hawaiian Steamship Co. Said Ludwig at the ceremony: "I think the people of Virginia are entitled...
...show in which sentiment is in short supply, the number "Recollections of an Old Dancer" is a finely wrought exception. Done to the song Mr. Bojangles, it captures the wrenching effect of advanced age for a dancer, together with the agelessness of the spirit of dance. Another standout is an amusing stunt number called "Fourteen Feet," which might have been titled "Look Ma, No Feet!" Seven dancers implant their feet in nailed-down clogs and proceed to sway, shake and swivel. At one point the lighting trans forms them into electric eels. Electric they...