Word: agee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy had relationships with other women. If all the adulterers who ever served in the U.S. Congress were to have their lives and legislative works obliterated from history, America might revert to forest. Perhaps the Supreme Court would remain intact, its virtue protected by advanced age. Play the game on a world scale, annulling the lives and works of leaders who have fallen into carnality, and much of history vanishes. The sex drive -- generator of life, begetter of history -- is not an orderly citizen...
...age of 25, Leonard Bernstein made a spectacular debut with the New York Philharmonic, substituting at the last minute for ailing Conductor Bruno Walter. Bernstein found himself on the front pages the next day, and ever since he has been one of the most prominent figures on the American musical scene. Familiar to millions from his lectures and performances on television, renowned as the composer of West Side Story, hailed as a formidable interpreter of Beethoven and Mahler, Bernstein may be the most protean talent and the most celebrated conductor America has yet produced...
Unfortunately, only some risk factors, such as a high-fat diet, can be controlled. Many others -- age (over 50), for example, or a family history of the disease -- cannot. But evidence has been growing during the past several years that there may be one more factor women can do something about: the consumption of alcoholic beverages. Two studies published in last week's New England Journal of Medicine made that case even stronger...
...must accept that the white electorate is here to stay and has a special duty in South Africa." To Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu, one of the country's best-known blacks, the election carried a very different lesson. Said the 1984 Nobel Peace laureate: "We have entered the darkest age in the history of our country...
...woman who makes wallflower movies like The Heartbreak Kid and A New Leaf, whose fine individual qualities are overlooked by the great, noisy media bash of the age. Beatty is, of course, Beatty: a man in whose career- drama the actual movies he stars in are merely incidents. In a daringly speculative new book, Warren Beatty and Desert Eyes (Doubleday; $17.95), Critic David Thomson puts it this way: Beatty's ambition now is "to see if he can be only a star -- not a star kept alight by regular work and appearance, but a star who exists according...