Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...age of four, young Loret was placed in an orphanage; eventually he was adopted by a well-to-do French family. Eighteen years later, when Hitler overran France in 1940, he ordered the Gestapo to find mother and son, who had independently made their ways to Paris...
revolution, bureaucracy and Russian tradition. Revolution, once but briefly, was everything; years ago tradition and bureaucracy defeated it. The Revolution has ended by instituting a new form of authoritarian state, quite reactionary, now ruled by a gerontocracy (average age of Politburo members...
...Augustus to Claudius. Gibbon called Claudius the stupidest of all Roman emperors-a considerable statement, given the fact that in 500 years there were 81 in the class. But it was Graves' fictional conceit that Claudius only feigned stupidity to save his life in that murderous, fun-filled age. While, over the years, his relatives were running from dinner or orgy with various poisons in their gullets, Claudius munched serenely on, watching and waiting and watching some more. I, Claudius purports to be the product of all that observation...
...been labeled a "superstar," which seems to be part of the mandatory hyperbole of the age. Let's just call her a star, a title she deserves since she has that special X factor of personality that sets stars apart from other top-ranking talents. But as a star whose gifts include singing, dancing and acting, ought she not to be extraordinary or unique in one of those categories? Liza...
FRANCE. French secondary education tends to be much more grueling than the U.S. version. Primary school ends at age eleven or twelve, when students enter a college d'en-seignement secondaire-roughly equivalent to a junior high school. During the first year, they shoulder a set 27-hour-per-week load: five hours of French, three each of math, a foreign language, history, geography, civic education and economics, two hours of aesthetics and two of technical education. Later, they begin a second foreign language; the first one is typically studied for seven years...