Word: younger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past. Astronomers look backward in time by looking outward in space. The best optical telescope can see galaxies that are 2 billion light-years away, i.e., with light that left them (at a travel speed of 186,300 miles per second) when they were 2 billion years younger than they are now. But 2 billion years is a comparatively short backward leap into the cosmic past, does not reveal enough evidence of change to prove or disprove either theory...
...Many younger children (and duller older ones) are helped by TV, which informs them about their world at a pace that suits them...
Operating with him on the Canadiens first line are Dickie Moore, third highest scorer in the league, and Maurice's own younger brother and heir apparent, Henri ("Pocket Rocket") Richard, only 22 but already a solid all-round center who has made 29 points this year. Together they form the best line in hockey (40 goals, 55 assists to date)-with the ironic result that the league's leading scorer (40 points), Bernie ("Boom Boom") Geoffrion, is relegated to the second line...
...have family feeling. Since they have a permanent production outfit (unlike most other theater men, who fold up after each show), they have given employment to generations of performers. Example: one of Flower Drum's brightest young dancers, Patrick Adiarte, 15, started at eight as one of the younger children in The King and I, kept on playing the parts of older boys as he grew; meanwhile, his mother was a dancer in The King and I. As much as any of the Chinese in Flower Drum Song, R. & H. believe in tradition, have gone to the same opening...
While these older folk (well played by Maureen Stapleton, Sig Arno, Sanford Meisner) hold Behrman's loose-leaf memory book together, younger ones are falling in love and inquiring of life. Chief of these is Willie (Eli Wallach), an unstable college student who goes in for long words and large thoughts, is forever losing himself trying to find himself, unavailingly loves one girl, is unavailingly loved by another. For all his lostness, he seems an essentially comic type till suddenly-out of Winesburg, Ohio more than Worcester, Mass.-he kills himself. Earlier, Behrman nowhere sounds the few right notes...