Word: younger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...musical successes of that country resulted not from the efforts of Americans but of famous performers of European countries." Van's victory dramatically underscored that there is more first-rate native instrumental talent in the U.S. than in the whole of Europe. Moreover, the talent is younger. In Cliburn's generation there are at least nine pianists of equal native ability: Byron Janis, 30, Gary Graffman, 29, Seymour Lipkin, 31, Jacob Lateiner, 30, Claude Frank, 32, John Browning, 24, Eugene Istomin, 32, Leon Fleisher, 31, and Canada's Glenn Gould, 25, who has played widely...
...Younger generations-lost, silent, or beat-are presumed to share one quality: youth. After Long Silence, a first novel by Manhattan's 26-year-old Robert Gut-willig, is symptomatic of a recent fictional tendency to portray the yo.ung as prematurely aged and jaded. A scabrous episode early in Author Gutwillig's book suggests its Sagantiquated antics: "Males and females were naked to the waist. The couples seemed to be licking each other's shoulders, necks, and chests . . . Each couple had a little can with holes in the top-like a large salt cellar-and from time...
...makes the rest of the issue seem unusually amateurish. Although "Legends" would not deserve the American Academy Poetry Prize which Sommer has won in his second year of graduate school, the poem nevertheless shows a consideration for the reader which is conspicuously absent from the work of most younger writers, including the other three contributors to this issue...
Durable Boulevardier Maurice Chevalier, 69, confessed that he did not understand the younger generation, frowned especially at sad-eyed, bedroomy Novelist Franchise Sagan: "I do not follow that kind of mentality. I cannot understand how it is to be young, in good health, to have talent and money, to be attractive-if with these five blessings you are unhappy, then what do you want? The only thing left is to commit suicide...
Alphand cited that growing population rate as a contributor to inflation, adding that population growth in France had surpassed that of her neighbors, "as you can see by our prime ministers. They are getting younger and younger...