Word: agee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When I was [at the B-School] as a student, there were very few women doing graduate studies in business at all," said Baldwin. "As we age we come up for consideration, and some of us are lucky enough to gain tenure," said Baldwin, who earned her undergraduate degree in economics...
...Sept. 19. The slender, bespectacled Virginian, who underwent surgery for prostate cancer in 1985, has continued his renowned six-day workweeks, with an occasional half day on Sunday, but apparently was afraid he would not be able to keep up the pace much longer. Said he, simply: "For me, age 80 suggests retirement...
...made under the First Amendment by civil libertarians, and never more urgently than today. If you don't like it, they say, don't watch it, read it, listen to it or buy it. But also, don't bother people whose tastes differ from yours. In a less toxic age, Thomas Jefferson rhetorically asked, "Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched?" Today Comic George Carlin puts it this way: "On the radio there are two knobs. One turns it off; the other changes the station. This is called freedom...
What sort of person would live in such a house? An 18th century person, in fact, but one whose mind spanned the entire century, adding the late 18th century expansiveness of Blake and Wordsworth to the wary constraints of Pope. The century that began in the Age of Reason ended in the Age of Romanticism, and the Constitution accommodated that severe transition. If the basic text is an Enlightenment document, the Bill of Rights is a homage to Romantic thought, challenging not so much the specifics of the basic Constitution as its earnest sense of permanence. Amendments did not promise...
...city to city as the nation's capital moved, went into hiding during the War of 1812, was transferred from federal department to department until it wound up in the National Archives in Washington, sanctified in helium and watched over by an electronic camera conceived by NASA. The quill age to the space age, and at every stage, a nation full of grateful believers making a constant noisy fuss over a piece of writing barely equivalent to a short story: much theme, no plot and characters inferred...