Word: ages
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Age 8-Sent to school in Cairo, he shook his fist at R.A.F. planes flying overhead and shouted: "0 Almighty, may disaster overtake the British!" Two years later the constitution that the British had granted Egypt in 1922 was suspended, and Egypt was governed by decree...
...each age I have found a home: I was swaddled in immortality and time was my play-pen. Men burned candles at my altar--in religion, poetry, the sciences. All the professions engendered their terms, and the terms became symbols, and the symbols grew into myths, and the myths became legends. And the legends were allegories, teaching the racial wisdom...
Died. Edward Pearson Warner. 63. M.I.T.-trained aeronautical engineer, internationally famed air-age sage, longtime ( 1945-57 ) president of the council of the International Civil Aviation Organization, onetime (1926-29) Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics, editor of Aviation (1929-35), vice chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board; of a heart attack; in Duxbury. Mass...
This Angry Age. A strong but uneven picture, derived from The Sea Wall, a memorable novel about French pioneers in Indo-China; with Anthony Perkins and Jo Van Fleet (TIME, June...
...leading member of San Francisco's Beat Generation, makes the usual novelist's disclaimer: his characters are not real people. Still, reading his book, any sensitive cat might think of someone like Tenor Saxman Lester Young or Charley ("Yard-bird") Parker (who died in 1955 at the age of 35 because he behaved too much like Edgar Pool). The prototype for Geordie. The Horn's No. 1 chick, might be someone like Jazz Singer Billie Holiday. Actually, the resemblances are not important. This is a standard jazz story and, beyond that, basically the standard intellectual...