Word: younger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world's best young violinists had entered the 10th Queen Elisabeth, the most glamorous of all the music competitions. The stiff preliminaries had winnowed the competitors down to twelve-including four Russians and four Americans. But in the finals, the Russians were the masters of the younger and shakier Americans, whose main virtue was the exuberant individualism of their playing. When the prizes were announced, the Russians took first, second, fourth and ninth; the Americans placed third, fifth, eleventh and twelfth...
Most of the people who attend these meetings are middle aged or older, although membership in the organization itself shows a fairly even distribution of ages. There is good reason for this. The younger people came faithfully, when the group was first established but soon grew bored, finding that the meetings rambled on for hours at a time with promises, protests, and trivial discussions replacing concrete ideas for action...
...town's Newman Catholic Women's Club. She flipped on a slide of Windsor Castle, delivered a capsule history of Britain's royal family, went on to urge her audience to go to Europe. "It adds meaning and enjoyment to life, especially for the younger people . . . You hear that places like Ireland and Switzerland are so cold, but it's not true. Don't load your suitcases down with heavy clothing. A couple of pairs of snuggies and a couple of sweaters will do. And before you go home, give them to somebody over there...
...Barzani, 60, has spent most of his adult life fighting for independence. After World War II, with Russian backing, Barzani became military boss of the Soviet-inspired Kurdish People's Republic in Iran and, when it collapsed, was for twelve years in exile in the Soviet Union. The younger brother of the ruling sheik of the Barzan tribe, Barzani denies he is a Communist, but echoes other Kurdish leaders who say that if war breaks out again the Kurds will "accept all the help we can get from anyone"-Russians included...
Many of the older Negroes, recalling what life was like during their youths, share in this sanguinity. The younger ones are caught between an attachment to home and their families' traditions, and the knowledge that they might do better elsewhere, or even in Chestertown if they defy their parents. Getting away from home is a real problem for these young people. One of the brightest of them, for instance, quit Morgan State College in Baltimore after three months because he was too homesick; others have thought to make careers in the army, and then quit after two lonely years...