Word: agee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...title of his third book, You Can't Go Home Again, became a rallying cry. William Faulkner later appraised him as one of the most important contemporary American writers. But even in his lifetime, Wolfe was cruelly parodied, and after his death from tuberculosis in 1938 at the age of 38, he fell into disfavor, a symbol of self-indulgence and creative excess...
When Henry Morton Stanley went to Africa to find Dr. Livingstone for the New York Herald, he may have carried no more than a note pad and a few supplies. In the electronic age, reporters backpack a heavier load. A network correspondent must lead a safari of a producer and camera and sound technicians. Each network spends up to $10 million a year to maintain Washington offices, but even the smallest bureau can run up a $500,000 annual tab. CBS spends nearly as much on Diane Sawyer's $1.2 million contract as on the three bureaus it will...
...Standeven refused to tell this unworthy kid where to get a set of pipes. Remembers Britton: "It took me three years to get my first set." Once he had them, though, he learned quickly and, by the age of 16, had resolved to become a pipemaker himself. That he did, with great success. Like children, bagpipes always belong, in a sense, to those who brought them into the world. Thus, while some of the musicians show off Kennedy's pipes, or Quinn's, about a quarter of those present boast a set of "Timmy's pipes...
Morricone's father was a trumpet player who performed jazz and opera and worked on movie scores. His son started to write music ("dreadful") at the age of six. When he was twelve, his parents enrolled him in the Rome music conservatory, where he finished a four-year harmony course in six months. Morricone remembers that his professor, wary of wasting such a potential talent, told him sternly that "if I did not enroll in the composition course, I was an assassin." He also taught his student that "one of the values of a music script is the pain that...
...resisted sacking his chief of staff until the end of February despite Regan's all too public feud with Nancy. Her influence, though, is unquestionably special. Last Wednesday, which happened to be the Reagans' 35th wedding anniversary, the President said, as he often does when people ask him his age, "My life began 35 years ago." And only Nancy could promise former Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, as she once did, that she would whisper "peace" in Ronald Reagan's ear each night...