Word: golden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time in a hurry. Perhaps he was too fast; he was impatient with anything that stood in his way. He made some bad mistakes. The police tagged him as a delinquent. Then he stole a $30 rifle, was sent off to the Colorado Industrial School for Boys at nearby Golden. There Anthony, now 14, got in trouble again: he broke the silence rule going in to supper, offered another boy his plate because he wasn't hungry himself...
Denver papers spread the story on Page One. Soon other tales of brutality came to light. A former state employe charged that a guard's kick had caused the death of another Golden boy last spring. There were stories of beatings, dark cells, bread-&-water punishment at the teen-age reformatory in Buena Vista...
...James Jeans was a leading interpreter of this Golden Age. Jeans started as a lecturer at Cambridge, England, then was summoned to Princeton in 1905 by the University's president, Woodrow Wilson. There Jeans taught applied mathematics, married Charlotte Tiffany Mitchell of the jeweled Tiffanys. In 1910 he went back to Cambridge, turned to astronomy. Always a theoretician rather than an observer, he published formidable papers which won him a reputation among brother scientists. Typical title: The Mathematical Theory of Electricity and Magnetism; Atomicity and Quanta...
...this airport is the antechamber of the Third Rome, as Russian Orthodox theologians, with a diametrically opposite meaning, used to call Moscow the Golden.* Through it is entered the doctrinal capital of Communism, the fanatical modern faith which holds that man can assert the ultimate potential of his humanity only by denying God and yielding himself wholly to Reason and its instrument, Science...
...took many years before a public nerved to the crankier literary difficulties of Proust and Joyce could understand the intense beauty and relevance of James's mature novels (The Ambassadors, The Golden Bowl, The Wings of the Dove). Along with the other reprints, anthologies and critical studies of the James revival, The American Scene should encourage more & more U.S. readers to turn to his writing, as perhaps toward the peace of greatness...