Word: agee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...assorted onlookers shouted encouragement and occasionally joined the marchers, who in many cases were their sons and daughters. In Pusan, the country's second largest city and the scene of a demonstration involving 50,000 people, Presbyterian Minister Cho Chang Sop, 60, proudly reported that both of his college-age children had joined the protest. Said he: "Nowadays most of the parents support the kids." In Songnam, ten miles south of Seoul, a protest march led by a group of about 100 elderly people was joined by some 5,000 Koreans. "People are angry and disgusted," said a Seoul businessman...
...almost certainly win. That would allow the President to let the matter be settled by popular will without forcing him explicitly to back down from the decision of April 13. Yet even that solution would be seen as a compromise, perhaps even a retreat -- concepts that run counter to age-old tradition in South Korean public life...
...when the Supreme Court rendered its landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education, writing that separate schools were not equal. Today, courts debate whether statistics can prove a racist justice system, even if there is no particular person who can show that he has been wronged. The Rosa Parks age has passed...
Actress Joanne Woodward at the College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Me.: Age has given me the arrogance and experience has given me the urgency to tell you what time looks like from this side of the river. My generation was the first to know we might not have any time at all, and yours was the first to be born knowing it. With each second you have after this one, you have to find a way to guarantee that time itself can live. We must choose to be custodians of this lovely planet that suckled...
...lieu of suspense there is plenty of attention to the veneer of the gilded age: high society in New York, Newport and Washington, with occasional forays into England and France. Vidal handles the gatherings of the very bright and very rich with meticulous attention to the furnishings and small outbursts of naughty wit. Mrs. John Jacob Astor appears, commenting on the trials of idle affluence: "Now I play bridge. It is exactly like being alive." Vidal also throws in teasers to keep knowledgeable readers on their toes. Roosevelt's outspoken daughter Alice is quoted on her desire to leave Washington...