Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Jan Garber, 82, bandleader known for his mellow dance music; in Shreveport, La. Garber, who formed his first band at the age of 21, blended saxophones, played with what musicians call a "nanny goat vibrato," guitar and muted brass into "sweet with a beat," a smooth style that was highly popular in ballrooms and on radio during the 1930s...
Finally, last spring, Stephens, 25 years of age, settled back into a suite in Quincy House and resumed his concentration in Afro-American studies...
...age, Fast's message is perhaps simply that people should think more about what they are doing--things are not always what they seem to be. There is a parallel to be drawn between Dan Lavette and the country he helped build, when Fast says of his character...
...age--he was 33 at the time of his first application--may have played some role in his rejection. As Lowrey wrote in reply to a letter from Bakke in 1971, two years before he actually applied, "when an applicant is over 30, his age is a serious factor which must be seriously considered...
...exhibits vary as widely in materials and forms as they do in age. There are model pottery cottages and figurines that date from the Bronze Age--heavy, clumsy clay and copper vessels. And then there are enchanting works like a bronze stag only 16cm. high, that dates from around 1000-700 B.C. and was discovered near Sevlievo. It is composed of the simplest forms--hardly more than a few cylinders, shaped to forms an abstraction of a stag, with a minimum of anatomical accuracy--and all the appeal of similar Scythian statuettes...