Word: young
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Babbit related his experience of standing in line with his young son at a shelter for the homeless. When they encountered a 12-year-old kid by himself, the son turned to Babbit in amazement. His basic ideals about his nation had been shattered. The solution for the father-son duo was to return to those basic ideas, in the form of the Lincoln Memorial, which Babbit explained in Stewartesque cadence, "isn't a memorial, it's a shrine." They read the Gettysburg Address together, and psychically restored by the words of a president who had lost many elections before...
...reasons that we won is that we had a lot of depth," Greenberg said. "Although we had a lot of injuries, we had some confident people who could come in. We had a lot of young players--there were three freshmen on the field at the end of the Brown game...
...knows how many patients are being held in Soviet mental hospitals solely because of their political beliefs. In the past few weeks alone, a visitor encountered several possible cases. One man, for example, claimed that his son had been hospitalized for resisting the draft. Another young man said he had just been released after spending two months in a mental ward for refusing on religious grounds to enter the military. While hospitalized, he said, he was given sulfazine, a powerful drug that has no apparent effect other than inducing a high fever...
CONFESSION. A CHRONICLE OF ALIENATION. A shocking and realistic documentary by director Georgi Gavrilov about a young high school dropout and drug addict, the grandson of a labor-camp officer, who searches for identity in an apathetic society...
NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND, Moscow Theater for Young Spectators. Soviet audiences are no longer shocked by Dostoyevsky's long-banned philosophical ramble or, for that matter, by the full frontal nudity staged by director Kama Ginkas...