Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...economists--Bruce Scheer, an expert on agriculture, and Jay Siegel, an income and age pattern analyst--also resigned last week...
A.B.T. has top stars (Natalia Makarova, Cynthia Gregory, Gelsey Kirkland, Anthony Dowell, Fernando Bujones and Baryshnikov, who will also dance). But its stagings of Swan Lake and Giselle show their age, and newer productions like Sleeping Beauty and Raymonda have been artistic disappointments. As the management has grown older, young dancers have been left without guidance, to develop or languish on their...
...house of literature is in its usual state of disrepair. Poetry is depressed, the novel remains in the shadow of James, Joyce and Proust, and an aging Tennessee Williams is still the greatest living playwright. But wait: there is a light burning in the attic window. Biography is alive, well, and scribbling away, better than ever. The banners may not be waving in college English departments and the critics may not be cheering quite as much as they should, but we are now in a golden age of biography. Indeed, all but half a dozen of the greatest biographies...
...bestselling additions to the collection: William Manchester island-hopping with Douglas MacArthur, Edmund Morris galloping up San Juan Hill with Teddy Roosevelt and Barbara Tuchman wading through the wars and devastations of the 14th century with the Baron Enguerrand de Coucy. No wonder Holroyd exults: "Biography has come of age...
...first film, They Live by Night, won critical plaudits for its stark depiction of teen-age alienation, loneliness and savage cruelty-themes he later developed in the psychological western Johnny Guitar and the '50s cult film starring James Dean, Rebel Without a Cause. Ray's fortunes faded in Hollywood in the 1960s, not to be revived by blockbuster fiascos he made abroad...