Word: younger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with a lover's ears to the grand plans of her perpetually promising gentleman: "And when you spoke of your uncertain future, your longing to break away & do the work you really like, didn't you see how my heart broke with the thought that, if I had been younger & prettier, everything might have been different...
...retrospect, it is easy to see why Henry James at first viewed the younger Edith Wharton with some alarm. He might have invented her, except that she was a Jamesian heroine even richer and brighter than his imagination had dared. And her novels made more money than his. The record of their growing friendship is only one of many happy adventures in this brimming, brilliant collection...
...People our generation and younger have grown up with a rock music attitude surrounding us," O'Hara says. "That means we share a rebelliousness and a willingness to take some chances." Those chances, even when they are as respectful as Travis' or as roughhouse as Steve Earle's, are already paying handsome dividends. There's new times in country at last. And good times...
...soft, gentle and more social, vulnerable. He was partly a boyhood role model for Michael and partly a competitor to be surpassed (as friends have been since Sandy Cohen's day). Their mother admits that the boys, though close and loving, were intense in their rivalry, and Michael, the younger, was the eventual winner in every arena...
...younger children were comprehending the laws of physics, they weren't about to let strangers in on their newfound knowledge. Questions about how they were enjoying the exhibits usually drew blank stares from the young scientists. When they did answer, they stuck strictly to the empirical. "I'm poking a sponge," said one, who quickly retreated to the comfort of her nearby mother...