Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week Judge Andrew Christie made a dramatic announcement from the bench: "An individual in Pennsylvania has confessed to committing all six crimes." Ronald Clouser, 39, who closely resembles the priest despite a 14-year age difference, had already admitted committing three robberies in Pennsylvania. An industrial engineer, Clouser was on leave from his job with the U.S. Postal Service because of emotional problems. Clouser's lawyer stated that his client wanted to "exonerate Father Pagano of acts for which he was wrongly charged." Said Clouser: "Father Pagano has unjustly suffered for six months." He added...
...view of Yosemite Valley.) The show enables one to see Adams' early and late prints from the same negative, and the difference is interesting. The early ones are of ravishing delicacy; they have a subtlety of discrimination, a continuity of surface tone that are essentially lyric. But by middle age, Adams' work began to shift. In the darkroom, he was conducting from the negative's score?pushing the image to its tonal limit, infusing it with a Wagnerian moodiness. The late prints are public declamations, cast in an epic mode. To Adams, change is simply a matter of knowing more...
...have to make it as easy as possible for these kids to register," says Joseph Madison, director of the N.A.A.C.P.'s voter program. The percentage of voter turnout in the U.S., especially among the young, is steadily declining. Madison points out that of the 3.4 million blacks age 18 to 24 in 1976, 38% registered and only 26% voted. Of the 23 million whites in that age group, 53% registered and 45% voted. Legislation to enroll all teen-age voters is under consideration in 20 states...
...illusion succeeded. Between 1884 and 1929, there was not one vacancy in the monumentally ostentatious building. It had inlaid marble floors, a rooftop promenade with gazebos, an English baronial dining hall and a uniformed staff of 150. But then the Dakota was no more extravagant than the age in which it was built. Although the building looked out over a vista of squatters' shacks in Central Park, society's reigning Four Hundred might spend $200,000 on a single ball...
...impossible not to wonder why the nation has got caught up in such a welter of war lore. True, some keen public curiosity needs no special explanation. After all, most Americans now over age 34 experienced the war in civvies if not in uniform: the war is their own story. There are, however, some other specific reasons for the new intensity of interest...