Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deciding on a career in the arts. Herter was following in family footsteps. His German-born grandfather, the first Christian Herter, was an architect and interior decorator who designed and lavishly adorned the Fifth Avenue mansions of such gilded-age moguls as J.P. Morgan and William H. Vanderbilt. In his early 40s, having piled up a million of his own, Grandfather Herter said farewell to his family and went off to live in Paris, where a few years later he died of tuberculosis, leaving behind a sadly dwindled fortune and two gifted sons. Son Christian (uncle of Christian Archibald) became...
Adams termed Opitz "an advocate of the negative state--an unmodified laissez faire form of government." Accusting Opitz of "irrelevancy," Adams asked about "areas--such as cyclical unemployment and old-age--where private enterprise has shown itself deficient." The moderator then invited Opitz, who was in the audience, to defend his views. Declaring that charity and private pension plans should aid the aged, Opitz said government financial "manipulations" have led to unemployment and depressions...
...graduate and undergraduate level--will suffer from an acute shortage of teachers over the next ten years "unless something miraculous happens," Elder commented. This problem is not anyone's fault, he added, but merely a result of the vast numbers of "war babies" who will be reaching college age in the coming years...
Tynan began writing criticism twelve years after his birth in 1927. As a scholarship student at Oxford he criticized and directed plays, edited a literary magazine, and served as secretary of the Oxford Union, "a sort of large-scale debating society." He had gone up to Oxford at the age of eighteen, at the close of World War II, a period when the University was largely dominated by returning veterans, many of them years older than he. "One had to in a sense work harder, because of the generation gap... And that I think was invaluable. One couldn't just...
...age of twenty-seven, Tynan became dramatic critic for The Observer of London, in which capacity he speedily made an impressive international reputation, and last fall he came to America (which he had visited every year since 1952) to write for the New Yorker. And so to Master Owen's living room at Winthrop House, where he appeared last Sunday in a maroon suit and loose knotted tie: a tall young man in his early thirties, with a battery of firmly held, well-expounded, and well-supported opinions...