Word: younger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cover of Pope John XXIII is one of your finest. The face is of a strong man who is conveying a sense of deep sympathy to a younger brother in arms...
Andrew Imbrie: Third String Quartet (Walden String Quartet; Contemporary Records). A sinewy, inventive, virtuoso work by one of the most gifted of the younger U.S. composers. Bold of theme, rawly colorful in its sonorities, it is both an abrasive and a stimulating musical tonic...
...gave me the most fun I have ever had. It is fun to help students discover facts and laws unknown to them. [But] it does not take long before student and teacher have walked together out to the frontier of knowledge-a fine comradeship between an older and a younger generation. Each new generation of young scientists gets its happiness by explaining what was inscrutable to the previous generation...
Meanwhile, Father is making desperate attempts to be friendly, but the children are far too coony to be taken in. "What's this," sneers the older boy when Father tries to teach him how to fish, "the Huckleberry Finn approach?" And when he mildly reproves the younger son for some particularly brattish behavior, Sophia indignantly tells him: "Try to be a parent, not a policeman." In the end, when Father is reduced to gibbering ineffectiveness, the woman calmly and efficiently takes over and puts the poor man out of his misery by marrying him. At this point the children...
What then about Khrushchev's talk of outproducing the U.S.? "Nonsense," says one U.S. expert whose specialty is Russian economics. By a totalitarian concentration, the Soviet Union might top U.S. output in a few items, but Russia's economy is "like a younger brother who always seems to be catching up to his older brother, but never really does because the older brother also keeps growing...