Word: younger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great events, the great ideas of history." The anthology opens with the somewhat acrid correspondence of Alexander the Great and Darius III (circa 334 B.C.), closes with Thomas Mann's warning to his age. St. Paul counsels the quarrelsome Corinthians ("the greatest of these is charity"). The Younger Pliny is baffled by the early Christians ("if they persevered, I ordered them to be executed"). St. Jerome eyewitnesses the Barbarian sack of Rome ("the wolves of the North have been let loose"). George Washington rejects a crown ("I must view with abhorrence"). Lincoln consoles Mrs. Bixby, whose sons had been...
...Bill Cunningham, sports seer of the Boston Post, using levy-League football as a spring board, took a flying swan dive into a deeper problem. His query: "What's happened to youth?" His answer: they've lost "not only physical energy but ... moral courage." As representative of the current younger-generation-is-going-to-the-dogs school of thought, that answer is a challenge...
...these the work Histories graduates describe their jobs, discuss their problems of adjustment to business life, comment on their living conditions, and offer advice to younger Harvard men who may follow in their wake. The reports contain the very latest first hand information on business and industrial opportunities in the words of Harvard men from no more than eight years out of college...
...years of work in the Red Cross, his sister's wartime Government work as a translator of confidential war documents, his own enlistment, that of his oldest brother Robert, the war work of another brother in airplane manufacture, his youngest brother's service in the Navy, his younger sister's Washington work for the Red Cross. It was extremely affecting talk. Even hard-boiled reporters were moved. One old newshawk, tough as a boot, confessed to a throat lump big as a doorknob. Willkie himself had wet eyes. At long last, and perhaps in spite of himself...
...others. First of all, a conductor is bound to play a number of works from the standard repertoire, but he must not, certainly, subject his audience to a steady diet of Beethoven's Fifth, Tchaikowski's Pathetique, and the New World Symphony. Of course, there are always younger listeners for whom a playing of these favorites is a new and exciting experience. On the other hand, conductors do not take enough for granted, such as the fact that the present-day concert audience is apt to be a good deal more sophisticated musically than the audience of five years...