Word: younger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...college sophomore and member of the younger generation, I thank you for realizing that not all of us spend all our time parading on Sunset Strip, on the Berkeley campus, or at protest meetings...
...teaching two classes a day, and performing the duties of dean of women, I am in constant contact with young people. I am always impressed and amazed; I have great faith and tremendous hope for us because of them. There are moments when I wish I were 20 years younger, but quickly shift my feelings to gratitude for being alive in this, their time. I wouldn't want to miss one minute...
...plot is as spare as the dialogue, and it never totally unravels. After six years of teaching at an American university, Teddy, a philosophy professor (Michael Craig), brings his wife (Vivien Merchant) back to North London to meet his widowed father, a bachelor uncle, and two younger brothers. An amoral crew with the ethics of asphalt-jungle cats, they live in "the land of no holds barred"-a grey, womanless room in a grey, womanless house. The father (Paul Rogers) is a bull walrus spuming through yellowed tusks against the dying of his authority. The older brother, Lenny (Ian Holm...
...intentions in this play. The dead mother plays a significant role in The Homecoming: she, like Ruth, was something of a slut. Thus the Oedipal shift of sexual power that takes place results in the overthrow of the two father figures-the old man and Teddy-with the two younger brothers taking possession of the slut-mother. That downfall is what gives peculiar pathos to the old man as he pleads for a kiss...
...biography (King George V), fiction (Sweet Waters), essays (Good Behavior) and travelogues (Journey to Java), as well as countless book reviews and speeches. But nothing that Sir Harold has ever produced is so likely to win him a permanent place in British letters as this volume culled by his younger son from his personal notes and correspondence...