Word: younger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Born. To Romano Mussolini, 35, jazz pianist son of Italy's Il Duce; and Maria Scicolone, 24, younger sister of Cinemactress Sophia Loren: their first child, a girl; in Rome. Name: Alessandra...
...sanctuary of Carnegie, he could sing the old songs that used to thrill his friends but cannot be parodied on records because they are not in the public domain -big brassy Broadway tunes like 76 Sol Cohens and the entire score of South Passaic (Younger Than Springstein, There Is Nothing Like a Lox). Movie tunes too. Moon River becomes "Chopped liver, rolled up in a ball...
...literature. Böll is a Christian humanist. Grass is a compassionate anarchist. Johnson is a Marx-influenced socialist who hates the Communist Party. What they and the other Group 47 writers most closely resemble is a kind of self-elected national conscience for Germany. Especially among the younger members, the appearance of anything or anyone that recalls the advent of Naziism sends Group 47 into the kind of panic which children whose parents have been destroyed by alcohol might feel at the sight of their new guardians sneaking a morning drink. In political terms, the resulting uproar often...
When Frederika's son. Crown Prince Constantine, began courting a voluptuous Greek actress, his mother promptly broke up the romance. Frederika had her sights on a higher prize-perhaps even Denmark's beauteous. 16-year-old Princess Anne-Marie, Constantine's coveted companion. For her younger daughter. Princess Irene. Frederika had her eyes on Crown Prince Harald of Norway...
...about Buchan's heroes, for modern readers at least, is their now archaic innocence and idealism of word and deed. Modeled on Buchan's Oxford friends and fellow World War I officers, they were created in a time when aristocratic and gentlemanly virtues were still fashionable and younger sons sought fame at the four corners of the world. For them, the trail of anything, even an idea, is always a "spoor." Girls, when they appear, and they appear seldom, are customarily wholesome and boyishly slim. Men are lean and shy (of sex and praise, anyway...