Word: sage
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...noon, Harold has worked his way to Sage's, where he invests in two dwarfed loaves of French bread (one thin dime a piece). From Brattle Street he ventures to Radcliffe to watch workmen labor over Ada M. Comstock, and eats his loaves of bread. There is a near-by drinking fountain...
...Russell Sage College...
...Sanskrit word for "straight," and the straight-living, ascetic sadhus of India were once the bearers of Hindu holiness. Robed in saffron or stark naked, smeared with ashes or painted vermilion, shaven bald or mat-haired, they wandered through the world with their begging bowls, dispensing sacred teaching, sage advice and examples of the unworldly life. Inevitably another breed of sadhu arose that was anything but straight. Trading on the enormous prestige of the holy men, these daubed wanderers move from village to village dispensing magic charms and quack cure-alls and mulcting the credulous peasants. Today at least...
...most promising solution to the air traffic problem, however, probably lies in SAGE (Semi-Automatic Ground Environment), the air defense radar network being constructed by the Defense Department at a cost of $3 billion. When it is completed, this system reportedly will be able to detect, identify and track all aircraft over the United States. If the CAA can somehow, through cooperation with the SAGE system, place its tracking operations on a semi-automatic basis, a method of effective traffic control will become possible, and the risky "visual flight" operation may be all but eliminated...
Thoughts of Monsters. "The most difficult thing of all for the moralist," observes sage Author Maurois, "is to live in accordance with his own principles." Poor Alexandre failed manfully in his efforts to do so. Urging death as the proper penalty for adulterous wives, and crying, "Only the virgin man is invincible," he fell into bed with green-eyed Princess Naryschkine, wife of a Russian nobleman. She bore him a daughter (later legitimized by her marriage to Dumas) shortly after audiences were applauding his ferocious antiseduction drama A Natural Son. Young Dumas' ferocity only caused women to swarm round...