Word: younger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WAPSHOT SCANDAL, by John Cheever. Evicted from St. Botolphs and its rooted way of life by time, circumstance and inclination, the younger generation of Wap-shots find the 20th century closing in and the fit uncomfortable, whether in suburbia or in the claustrophobic atmosphere of a missile base...
From Davison's The Breaking of the Day (Winner of Yale Series of Younger Poets Award...
...addition, two younger men already at Harvard have been given permanent Faculty appointments. They...
...eighty-second year when he died; yet we could have better spared a younger man. For, though he had physically slowed somewhat in recent years, his mind was as keen and probing as ever, and his old-fashioned dipped pen (he loathed the typewriter) just as active and skilled. In his last months, he was revising the manuscript of the last novel of All Souls, an eight-volume roman-fleuve to rank with Proust's and Rolland...
...that jokes about masochism, the 4th century ascetics of Egypt and Syria are hard to take seriously: St. Maron, who spent eleven years in a hollowed-out tree trunk; St. Acepsimas, who wore so many chains he had to crawl on all fours; Macarius the Younger, who felt so guilty about swatting an insect that he sat naked in a swamp for six months until mosquito bites made him look like a leper...