Word: ages
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scattered suites. As the Programs puts it in another booklet, "The College has been growing steadily for generations. It would be a radical and untimely departure were this process now to come to a complete halt, particularly in view of the coming pressures from an increased population of college age...
...from 1960 on, income is expected to exceed outgo "every year for many years into the future." The advisory council's real worry is that creeping inflation might make the payments worth disappointingly little by the time a young wage earner gets around to harvesting his share at age 65. "The social security system," warned the council, "has created for millions of Americans expectations regarding their future place in economic society. The defeat of beneficiaries' expectations through inflation would gravely imperil the stability of our social, political and economic institutions...
...Chinese Communists conquered Tibet, and slowly the centuries began to topple in on the states that form a buffer between Red China and India. In Bhutan the age of the wheel began. In Nepal the politics became as complicated as the most confused European parliamentary coalition. History even came to Sikkim...
...today has more guest-conducting invitations than he can handle, is currently on a three-month tour of Canada and the U.S. Perhaps Britain's most popular conductor (he was knighted in 1949), Barbirolli recalled last week that he had started his career as a cellist at the age of eleven: "If I can live for the next two years, I will have been before the public as a musician for 50 years. Every man in the public eye must have his ups and downs. They can't let the downs stop them...
...Shakespeare the magician with language who bulks largest in the recital, and Gielgud has his own touch of magic, not from any magnificence of voice or roll of theatrical thunder, but from a projection of feeling, a rush of psychological light. Moving from Youth through Manhood to Old Age, he plays many parts. Few will complain that he includes a host of warhorses-Hamlet's best soliloquies, Mercutio's Queen Mab speech, an abdicating Richard II, a sleepless Henry IV, a dying Lear and John of Gaunt. A few may wonder why Gielgud includes numerous sonnets...