Word: younger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John D.'s five grandsons. In Suite 5600 of Rockefeller Center's RCA Building, Manhattan command post for the family's worldwide enterprises, a senior staff member muses: "Win was always the most personally motivated of the boys. He was also the least assured." A younger son of a comparable dynasty in Victorian England who displayed Winthrop's early-blooming symptoms of rebelliousness and high living would have been packed off to colonize Kenya or repel the Pathans. It took more than familial pressures to part Fourth Son Winthrop from the Manhattan fleshpots and the clan...
...Less than 5% of Americans attend a live professional performance in a typical season. They are younger, better educated (55% of the men went to graduate school), and twice as wealthy as the urban population as a whole...
...large percentage of the 250 people chosen to participate in the festival were inexperienced, younger undergraduates, many of whom wrested juicy parts away from their elders. Seltzer was bringing a totally new generation into the Loeb. And yet, as his detractors were quick to note, Seltzer had given himself the juiciest parts of all. He was to direct Julius Caesar, starring Hamlin, and to star in King Lear, directed by Hamlin. Many excluded from major roles in the festival saw a Seltzer conspiracy to build an organization geared toward Seltzer's goal of putting the Loeb in the course catalogue...
...impending resignation had flown through the Irish Republic for months. Last week it finally came. In a long-awaited press conference in Dublin's Parliament building, 67-year-old Prime Minister Sean Le-mass announced his reluctant conclu sion that "responsibility should now pass to a younger man." The next day in the same smoky conference room, the 71 members of Lemass' Fianna Fail Party selected their new Prime Minister and Taoiseach (leader of the clan): former Finance Minister John Mary Lynch...
...droll cards the company calls "Hi Brows," which, along with other studio-type cards, now account for 11% of its business. Other cards are designed for the customer President Irving Stone describes as "that sweet little old lady who remembers everybody." Hi Brows are for younger people who want something a little spicier than sugar. Indeed, Hi Brows sometimes hang over the brink of bad taste. "For your birthday," reads one, "just a refreshing wish . . . may your cesspool never clog." For graduation, American Greetings has a suitable Hi Brow: "Your jaw is firm, your gaze is steady, your mind...