Word: younger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sets to work-it is 1939-with a younger Depression-age writer who has admired Halliday's books but quarreled with his values. But beyond having no stomach for short-order hackwork, Halliday has no resources. Daystpass in California and New York as he fishes for ideas in water that has gone over the dam, as he tosses crumpled typewriter paper after crumpled memories, as he struggles against a deadline that is indeed an obituary...
With Jason Robards Jr. impressive as a collapsing standard bearer for his era and vocation, and with George Grizzard excellent as the younger writer, the main narrative has many moments, such as Halliday's proud roll call of Jazz Age names, that are vibrantly nostalgic, as it has others, such as Halliday's white-knuckled attempt to summarize a scenario that has never been written, that are tensely moving. Elsewhere, at times, the main story is wordy and under-dramatized. Despite Rosemary Harris' period appeal as the wife, the flashbacks seem inadequate, do more to catch...
...easy as it is to conclude that the university faculty exists to promote scholarship, it would be foolish to suppose that more than a small minority of its patrons, adult or younger, either seek or receive training in serious research. Scholarship has always been an important but esoteric pursuit confined to a few deviants...
...pretender to the nonexistent Austrian throne, admitted that he had given up the good fight for feudalism, hoped to enter his homeland (from which he was barred so long as he wanted to run it) as just plain Dr. Otto Habsburg. The likely new pretender: Otto's younger brother, Archduke Robert, 44, who waits for the impossible, in Paris...
Rogers, who vehemently opposes the Cornell method of learning languages (i.e. machines, separation from culture), says that "We must reward the younger men. They must have an in- terest in the country whose language they are teaching." When these men move on to higher levels, Rogers advocates a system of rotation, whereby every faculty member, regardless of rank, will be required to teach an elementary course for a specific amount of time. The quality of teaching would then be raised and the teaching fellows would not be mired in the lower levels...