Word: younger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...memories of Ed Wynn's lisped plaint "I love the woods, I just love the woods." Jean Dixon as the wife is pleasant, but her change of heart just as the mortgage is going to be foreclosed--yes, there is a mortgage--seems slightly less than sincere. The various younger females, the daughter of the Fullers and her friends, were disappointingly undecorative save for one uncommunicative siren, Toni Sorel, whose brief appearances make Ann Sheridan's claim to the title of Oomph Queen patently absurd...
...letter, I hope that you will publish it and allow your readers a view of Canadian youth's outlook other than that of the official propaganda. Although we are painted as panting to go overseas and get killed for dear old England, the remarks I have noted among younger Canadians since the announcement that the U. S. was coming here to set up defense bases have been typically: "Well, it won't be long now, before we're all under Uncle Sam-and a good thing...
Writing in the current issues of Harper's and the Atlantic Monthly respectively, Adler and Cram are in close agreement in their diagnoses of the ills of the younger generation. They state that the current undergraduate is skeptical of principles and moral issues and has no concept of the difference between right and wrong. The student of today has followed the broad path of science down into the smoking hell of positivism and empirical rationalism, a hell whose number one devil is John Dewey...
...popular teachers during the past few years, was not caused solely by a shrinking budget or by misguided publicity seekers, but by administrative incompetency, which he lays alive to what is going on," Ross writes, "and it appears unlikely that mass dismissals can recur. The demoralization among the younger men has not been alleviated, however. Frankly and simon President Conant's doorstep...
...nonce the Faculty seems alive to what is going on," Ross writes, "and it appears unlikely that mass dismissals can recur. The demoralization among the younger men has not been alleviated, however. Frankly and simply, they distrust President Conant ... the will of President Conant is frankly suspect...