Word: young
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nine years the whole world (pop. 2,134,000,000), with brief exceptions here and there, has been in a Great Depression. At some point in these bitter years, the post-War world became a pre-War world-that is, a world anticipating World War. Millions and millions of young men, in the U. S. as elsewhere, had a War marked fatalistically on their private calendars...
...rabble, a Sophist, "a thoroughly subversive influence." Pondering this contradiction, Professor Winspear next noticed that The Clouds was produced in 423 B.C., when Socrates was 47 and Plato a child of six. He concluded that between 423 and about 400 B.C., when Plato knew him, Socrates changed, and that young Plato, who had a high contempt for the rabble, chose to overlook 70-year-old Socrates' past...
...first a penurious democrat. As he grew more famed, Socrates began to hobnob with aristocrats, took gifts of money from them, became less ascetic, changed wives (from shrewish, lowborn Xanthippe to patrician Myrto). By the time he had passed 50, Socrates was followed by no rabble but by young aristocrats who plotted to overthrow the Athenian democracy...
...pupils was Critias, who, Professor Winspear says, "had been a young man of democratic sympathies" before he fell under Socrates' influence. Critias became the Adolf Hitler of his day. When Athenian aristocrats, with Sparta's help, established an oligarchy, Critias led "the notorious and bloody reactionary dictatorship of the Thirty," which executed some 1,500 Athenians. When Athenian democrats returned to power, they decided "to hew the head off and not hack the limbs," condemned Socrates to death...
...officer" read a telegram from "the Commander of the Sixth Corps area." It ordered all young men to report their names at once, be prepared for a war draft. As the collegians sat speechless, up jumped one of their number to cry: "You'll be fools to enlist!" From a hundred throats came a roar: "Yellow!" In a trice Cornell's student body was on its feet, shouting, screaming, stamping. In the midst of the uproar the leader of Cornell's swing band leaped on the platform, saxophone in hand, and began to jam. As Cornell...