Word: younger
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...younger Democratic challengers have a poor record against older Republican incumbents. The last three times this match-up has occurred ended in disasters for Democrats--like Mondale's loss to Reagan in 1984, McGovern's to Nixon in 1972, and Stevenson's to Eisenhower in 1956. The last Democrat to succeed in this situation was Franklin Roosevelt '04, who beat Hoover...
...relatives -- above all the preposterous but persistent demand by his parents that he lead the life they envisioned -- are all part of almost any gay adult's personal legacy. If not always richly detailed in the writing, the moments are staged by Marshall Mason with unusual power. As the younger Ned, John Cameron Mitchell is touching but seemingly too sweet and girlish to have ripened into the tough, caustic adult Ned. But perhaps this is Kramer's deepest point -- that the corrosive gap between boy and man was wrought by the unloving world around him. More than a play about...
...scholar said, in an interview with The Crimson yesterday, that he is distressed that academics have not transmitted the best of the Black freedom movement--this empowering multi-contexuality--to younger generations...
There are some divergences: Nell Benjamin's Bunny Flingus seems substantially younger than the early 40s she is expected to be; and Faith Salie's Bananas seems lost rather than sad. It's hard to believe she stays in her room crying "all the time" as Artie says, or, for that matter, "for the last six months," as the stage directions stipulate...
...make room for younger leaders, eight of the Politburo's 14 members, are to retire; all are over 65. Among them: President Yang Shangkun, Vice Premier Yao Yilin and Defense Minister Qin Jiwei. None of this indicates that China's rulers are contemplating any political relaxation. Yang and others who are leaving the Politburo will retain their government positions and their grip on power...