Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mary Richards' age (mid-30s) was also part of her charm-almost a relief after a period when the nation seemed overrun and overwhelmed by the very young. Timing, in fact, may have contributed to MTM's popularity. During Watergate and the long ending of the Viet Nam War, when the nation was feeling especially baleful, these characters in an out-of-the-way local TV station, with their family feeling, may have suggested that it was possible to deal with the world without being either Patty Hearst or R.D. Laing. They became part of the viewer...
...human history in the second millennium B.C. Jaynes proposes this startling concept in his new book, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. If his theory is correct, mankind existed without consciousness for thousands of centuries, functioning dimly in "antlike" colonies nearly up to the age of Confucius and the ancient Greek philosophers. Before consciousness, says Jaynes, mankind was directed by hallucinatory voices, which survive today in schizophrenics; these voices, assumed to be divine, gave rise to all religions...
When Tribe was all of 20, he was studying the mysteries of algebraic topology, but he found that "a bit lonely," so he turned to law, joining the faculty at the age of 26. Now finishing his fourth book, a major analysis of U.S. constitutional law, Tribe has also advised politicians and institutions on such varied issues as the right to die and whether Massachusetts should require deposits on soft-drink bottles. Tribe is celebrated among students for his knack in jazzing up constitutional issues (he recently had them argue whether the President could be impeached for an armed intervention...
Housewives not only buy huge quantities of Marabel Morgan's books but also write her fervent letters to tell her their difficulties. The letters (100 per day) are a cross section of "housewife blues" in the age of liberation. She answers all these pleas, which provided the basis for her second book. Furthermore, she has some 75 Morgan-trained disciples now giving Total Woman courses to thousands of women in 60 cities. Four two-hour sessions cost $15, of which Marabel gets $5-helping to bring her take so far to nearly $1.5 million...
Robert Penn Warren is one of the few distinguished literary men who can aim a novel at the gut and not offend the head. The reason seems to be that even in the age of the Uncertainty Principle and culture fracture, Warren has not lost his sense of life as a sustained drama. The classical Western values that have linked his fiction, poetry and criticism for nearly 50 years are largely responsible. He writes novels with beginnings, middles and ends. People are born, come of age, love, suffer loss, infirmity and death in much the same way people always have...