Word: younger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...behalf through the A.F.L-C.I.O.'s Committee on Political Education, and many big businessmen are friendly to the Humphrey cause. For the first time in his political life, it appears that campaign funds will not be a problem. And if Kennedy has captured the imagination and allegiance of many younger, relatively militant Negroes, Humphrey is still warmly regarded by their elders, who remember that his crusade for their cause has been unqualified for a full generation...
...legacy also involves the onerous duty of governing 1,300,000 more Arabs who inhabit conquered territories that are together three times the size of Israel itself. The burden of the occupation has compounded older problems. Many younger politicians are losing patience with the pioneer generation of leaders typified by Eshkol. Men like Dayan's aide, Knesset Member Simon Peres, describe them as "a self-perpetuating oligarchy with a powerful sense of self-pity." Despite its recovery, the economy has serious weaknesses, among them its dependence upon the generosity of Jews abroad and its large trade deficit. Defense expenditures...
...usual combination of factors caused the Fulbright family to sell: lack of interest on the part of younger members, pressure of other affairs, and a handsome offer from Thomson: nearly $3,000,000. Senator Fulbright owned a substantial share of stock in the Times, but he is not likely to miss the paper much. As a youth, he worked for it only occasionally. But in a way, he has it to thank for his political career. In 1940 he was president of the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville when the paper harshly criticized Homer Adkins, who was running for Governor...
...gloomy words on the state of the science at the New York Psychoanalytic Society's annual Freud lecture, named after her father who started it all 70 years ago. Psychoanalysis, observed Anna, seems to be in sharp decline among those it should be helping most, those in the younger generation most confused about self and life. Today's youth, she continued, "is not interested in man's struggle against himself, but in man's struggle against society. Adaptation to society is the last thing they have in mind...
...rest of the ritual plays itself out almost mechanically: Foxy's fetus is aborted, the Whitmans and the Hanemas get divorced, Piet and Foxy marry and move away. The remaining couples take up bridge, their place in the town having been quietly usurped by a younger crowd that "held play readings, and kept sex in its place, and experimented with LSD." Toward the end, Updike provides a fortissimo blast of obvious symbolism: the Congregational Church goes up in an apocalyptic fire that leaves untouched only the old tin weathercock, riding high over the gutted house...