Word: ages
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even the town dump can make for complexities. "Like everything else in this Atomic Age," muses Professor Marston, "our dump is getting organized and is not as informal as it once was. The privilege of taking things has gone." It may not be long before some cheerful martini-toting group, decked out in Sunday-go-to-dumping clothes, will be confronted by the ultimate of barriers: a sign reading NO DUMPING...
...Taylor. Max Taylor's vice chief of staff since 1957, Lemnitzer has been philosophically in tune with Taylor, though opposite in personality; he is a messy-desk man and a shirtsleeve worker. But his achievements in that post are monuments to the Army's perseverance in the age of missiles and space. Lemnitzer's chief political victory: staving off an attempt, by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, to take away the Army's top missileers-Werner von Braun and associates...
...Juan engagement, paid a respectful call on Cellist Pablo Casals, 82. The two had never met, although Casals recalled admiring a Chevalier performance in 1904. For nearly an hour two of the youngest old men in music chatted warmly in French-mostly on the glories of age. Then Casals announced: "Now I will play for you." Chevalier swallowed, blinked, finally wept openly as his host hunched over his instrument and played The Song of the Birds, a Catalan folk melody and unofficial anthem of exiled Catalans that Casals performs at the end of every recital. Sobbed Maurice: "Quelle beaute, quelle...
...major value of the book--to this Montrealer, at least-seems to lie in MacLennan's incredible sympathy for his characters and their city. If in advanced middle age they now appear flabby and indifferent as they quietly sip Dewar's Best-Ever-Bottled, they exist, at least. MacLennan has explained how hard knocks made them the way are. Hard knocks always arouse sympathy, particularly if the victims are people you know...
...age of seventy-eight the Maestro is not yet finished with concocting enigmas. For the past six decades we have learned to recognize many Picassos: Picasso the archpriest of modern art, heir to Cezanne; Picasso the innovator and incorrigible prophet; Picasso the virtuoso of an infinitely flexible technique; Picasso the wit, even the coquette...