Word: young
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...College campus quickens to the approach of the fall term and a few of the weaker maple trees are beginning to turn orange. The occasion is the Fourth International Conference on Computers and-what is this?-the Humanities. Is the conference title a self-contradiction, like "fresh-frozen" or "Young Republican"? The observer, a humanist in a dry season, resolutely programs himself to suppress his real attitude toward computers, which is a feeling of smugness and superiority masking a feeling of inferiority and hysteria. This dates from an episode ten years ago when he was living in Salzburg, Austria...
...walls of Ted Kennedy's high-ceilinged office are crowded with the framed memories of his family's glory and its burdens: Jack with Bobby, Jack and Bobby with a thin, young Teddy, Joe and Rose. The children from all the families. An affectionate note from his mother correcting his grammar...
...true face of Communism in Hanoi and elsewhere. It used to be so much fun to discover our own moral defects. It is not so much fun any longer. These people labored under the notion that if we were sufficiently lovable, others would be drawn to us. Our young had so much security in the postwar world that they felt it was the order of nature, that nothing needed to be done to preserve it. It does not work that way. There must be respect, even tinged with fear...
...brief moment last week San Juan's international airport took on the atmosphere of a revolutionary carnival, as some 5,000 Puerto Ricans gathered to welcome an American Airlines jet. Young couples swayed to the rhythm of revolutionary songs, vendors did a brisk business selling tiny Puerto Rican flags, and young leftists passed out leaflets calling for armed struggle...
...status as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In the uproar over the Jensenist heresy, one black psychologist angrily called IQ testing "a multimillion-dollar supermarket of oppression," and the National Education Association urged a moratorium on all IQ tests of the young...