Word: younger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...preoccupied with money problems, strikes or community relations. His underlying concern is for the institution itself--what it will be like for the next generation of students. "That's what you worry about--the profession," Giamatti explains, "how the institution can sustain young people." He views the younger faculty, soon to be the senior faculty, noting the declining sense of the "profession." He wants to see the school teach the people who want to learn, releasing original thought out into the world...
...speech, his successor will have his hands tied to a considerable extent by his own Cabinet colleagues and the dictates of party policy. Traditionally, Nationalist ideology has been divided between so-called verligte (enlightened) and verkrampte (narrow-minded) elements, though these days it tends to break down more between younger and older Afrikaners, farmers and city dwellers. If the choice is for a verligte approach, South Africa?and the West?might yet be able to buy a little time to try to salvage a peaceable future in the region. If the verkrampte forces prevail, the confrontation between...
Janus discovered a generation gap among the comedians. Most who reached prominence before the 1950s grew up in large, Yiddish-speaking immigrant families in Brooklyn or on Manhattan's Lower East Side. About 80% came from kosher homes and 90% later anglicized their names. Younger comedians are better educated, have less contact with Jewish ritual and are more likely to break away from traditional Jewish humor to deliver social or political messages in their acts. Says Janus: "The older ones changed their names and relieved their tensions with booze. The younger ones lie about their age and dabble with pills...
...Linsley the younger remembered to show up, and she saved the Crimson's upset victory over UMass by holding off a swarm of UMass runners right behind her to finish a surprisingly high 11th place...
...name Treacy rings a bell it's because his younger brother, John, starred for Providence before graduating last year. Figure that...