Word: young
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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FIRE DOWN BELOW by William Golding (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $17.95). The last leaf of a trilogy begun back in 1980. An arrogant, young 19th century Englishman survives seaborne hardships to arrive in Australia -- and at some condition of self-knowledge...
...dozen balls and then wandered over to the fence to sign his name on caps, baseballs and odd pieces of paper. Puckett spends an hour or so a day signing baseball cards mailed to him by fans and sending them back in postpaid envelopes. He was joined by Cy Young Award winner Frank Viola, who pitched a 24-7 season last year. The chain link fence is some eight feet high, so kids tossed their books and balls over the top. After signing, the players threw the objects back over the fence, in one of Viola's favorite spring rituals...
THESE facts make the Nunn/McCurdy plan all the more compelling. A revolutionary program that can be accepted by a majority in Congress is needed to redress the problems with the current system. Participation in the Citizens Corps may be the only way in which some young people can afford higher education. Moreover, participating students will not have to find other sources of income or have lingering debts plaguing their future; the money they earn is up front and can pay for major portions of tuition costs at most colleges and universities. National service vouchers redress the regressive impact of current...
...Harvard educated lawmakers who did not attend a noontime luncheon for the team--made clear his feelings toward the game Keverian, who is noted as much for his enormous weight as his dry wit, said, "Hockey is a sport I never understood when I was young. We never had rinks. We just had ponds--and for some reason the other kids never let me on them...
...think this brought out a lot of young people to the march. We keep forgetting that our mothers and grandmothers lived through times when we didn't have these rights," Pellegrini says...