Word: younger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...determined best to denigrate the other's qualifications for the presidency: McCarthy, 52, came across as casual, languidly professorial, mature and even a little sleepy-an impression that was enhanced by the pouches beneath his eyes. Kennedy, 42, appeared tense, brittle and, by visual and verbal comparison, considerably younger...
Intellect & Influence. Whether as public servant or private counsel, Fortas has never been an easy, friendly man. In his hugely successful Washington law firm of Arnold, Fortas & Porter, his younger associates found him machinelike, testy and hardboiled. Said one when asked for a brief description: "Unpleasant." Then the man reconsidered. "Meticulous," he said. On the court, Fortas' clerks are said to find a similar blend of thoroughness and severity...
...modestly attributed his victory to luck. "Leonard," he said, "could have outrun me any time." But the baby-faced 34-year-old from Albuquerque had skill and daring going for him too. Unser's older brother Jerry was killed during a practice run at Indy in 1959; his younger brother Al narrowly escaped injury when he lost two wheels and slammed into the wall on the 41st lap of last week's race. Worried about Al, plagued by a broken transmission that forced him to stay in high gear and therefore cost him seconds accelerating away from each...
...vibrating Mylar mirrors. A screaming oscillator sadistically shivered the viewers' eardrums as it shattered their reflections on the mirrors. Equally diabolical was Boyd Mefferd's mini-discotheque, where strobe lights flashed up through colored plastic panels in the floor with such seeming moderation that many of the younger spectators felt an irresistible urge to sit or lie down in order to get closer to the beams...
...Newman :iub Center and California's Esalen Institute. The way to change society, he now feels, is "to subvert it from the inside with the power of love and caring." He thus considers the hippies ineffective for dropping out, the activists wrong for "alienating the older generation from the younger." The campus revolutionaries "are so lost in their own idealism that they forget that those with other ideals are people too. Students must wake up and realize that what they want is not to tear down the universities?but to embrace each other...