Word: younger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Predictable Ruts. Significantly, the best of Spearhead's younger writers are turning away from technical experiments. In John Berryman's fine story, The Imaginary Jew, in Delmore Schwartz's poetic probing of the Oedipus complex ("the child must carry his fathers on his back"), and in Randall Jarrell's savage war poetry, verbal high jinks are replaced by untortured statement and controlled emotion...
...George Allen, Ambassador to Persia, is eight days younger...
Playwright St. John Ervine (rhymes with "Injun servin' ") ceases to be mild-and well-mannered-only in his irate slashing away at the younger generation (the heroine's smug sons and selfish successor); but the younger generation hits back by refusing to seem convincing. And the older generation, whatever its higher virtues, seems awfully short on verve. So does the production itself, which puts an extra curse on the play...
...Doak Walker is the younger by a year and not quite so famous as pass-throwing Bobby. But on the opening kickoff, 175-lb. Quarterback Walker took the ball, shrewdly smuggled it to a teammate who galloped 84 yards, almost for a touchdown. A Walker pass and a short run made it, and Walker kicked the extra point. Bobby, who plays only on offense, wasn't even in the game...
...Associated Harvard Clubs let the cat out of the bag when he confessed that but for Senator Saltonstall's absence from the sessions a final decision would already have been reached. Now the three-month period until the crucial last meeting provides the opportunity for newly-aroused younger Alumni to show where they stand. Complete, airing of the issue through concentrated Committee attempts to make its activities known in the national Harvard community is the least that should be assumed of a distinguished democratically -conceived body...