Word: younger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have felt for some time that the real issue being argued between the mature younger generation and the immature older generation is simply life v. death. Nowhere has this sad conclusion been more vividly and clearly illustrated than in the recent clash at Berkeley over the "People's Park...
...served as student council president. After that he worked days in an insurance office while attending, at night, the University of Minnesota and then the St. Paul College of Law, from which he graduated magna cum laude. "We had enough to eat and enough to wear," says a younger brother, Paul. "But I suppose we'd be considered deprived today...
...gave the U.S. and world premiere of 42 works, including 26 pieces by American composers (one of them his own). George Szell of the Cleveland Orchestra has agreed to take on the additional duty of music adviser to the Philharmonic. Next season he will share its podium with five younger guest conductors - all of them potential candidates to succeed Bernstein. They are America's Lorin Maazel, Hungary's Istvan Kertesz, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos of the National Orchestra of Spain, as well as two men who once served as Bernstein's assistants: Japan...
...indeed, I had money on it." Joe Louis had been a hero of his younger days. Now it was the aging Patterson, struggling for a comeback, that he identified with. George had always followed the fights devoutely, and his own son had been a fine middleweight for a time. Boxers and jazzmen were the great folk heroes of that culture. In George's youth, long before black men were allowed into other fields of sports and entertainment, the fighter and the musician were looked upon with reverence and awe. These men, who could beat the hell out of white...
...Lynch, Pierce, Fenner, and Smith--it is much more subtle than that. A pliant flexibility is what enables the young spirit to view the world in a critical and hopeful way--he projects his flexibility onto the world. Nothing is sacred, everything can be changed. That's why the younger generation continually talks in the revolutionary idiom--qualitative change is as unlikely as the apocalypse only for those over thirty. There just isn't any reason why things are the way they are. Of course when you get married and have children (this is the most maturing experience...