Word: younger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...YOUNGER THAN YESTERDAY (Columbia). The Byrds first took wing as interpreters of Bob Dylan and on their fourth album soar highest with one of Dylan's old songs, My Back Pages. Where Dylan himself sang the disillusioned sermon like a harsh and nasal backwoods evangelist, the Byrds weave it into a more mellifluous and harmonic song. They also chirp sweetly about what seem to be LSDelightful reveries (Mind Gardens, Renaissance Fair...
Death & Burial. Around the U.S., there exists what California Pollster Mervin Field describes as "a general uneasiness"-over Viet Nam, high prices, an ever-rising crime rate, the seeming ineradicability of poverty, the restlessness of the younger generation, the increasing use of a whole pharmacopoeia of drugs, from pot to peyote. A Gallup sampling showed that 58% of Americans consider income taxes too high-and the figure will surely swell if Johnson decides to slap a 6% surcharge on income tax rates. If he does not, the Administration may well end the current fiscal year with a deficit...
Portrait by Romney. Dining at 10 Downing Street, he delightedly pointed out to Prime Minister Harold Wilson that a painting of William Pitt the Younger bore the signature of George Romney, the 18th century English portraitist. In a private session with 200 British peers and Members of Parliament, left-wing Laborites did their best to bait him, but Humphrey fielded their barbed questions with aplomb, won a standing ovation at the end. "That was a magnificent performance," said Conservative Party Leader Ted Heath. In Bonn, his talks with West Germany's Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger went off smoothly, even...
...minute flight with 122 people aboard, a stewardess averages no more than 23 seconds with each passenger. Whereas TWA used to dangle its transcontinental flights before senior stewardesses as a lush reward for longevity, such runs are now frequently given to neophytes-simply because they are younger, fresher and can run harder...
...final picture of the series, a Hitler figure is viewed in the act of self-castration. At least, some critics have him as Hitler. Lasansky declines to identify it. His concern, he says, is not primarily with indicting German Nazis; his larger intent is to remind the younger generation that the human mind and will have a vast and terrifying capacity for brutality. "It could happen again," he believes. "And I don't think the imagination can even conceive of what it would be like...