Word: younger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Readers who devoured Waterland a few years ago will remember finding in Graham Swift's novel an inventiveness common to many of the younger British novelists -- Martin Amis, Julian Barnes and Ian McEwan -- matched with a sense of inquiry and of mystery that is not so common. Waterland was a novel electric with ideas. Yet in his intricate narrative of generations and degenerations, Swift achieved something remarkable: a dense, literary text that raced ahead with the compulsive fury of a page turner...
...need to play the China card now when our opponents have thrown in their hand, no need to ignore China's spreading dangerous weapons technologies and its trampling of human rights. I would deny most- favored-natio n status to China, impose trade sanctions and encourage the younger generation's democratic aspirations. They'll triumph someday, and we want to be seen as having been on their side from the beginning. Bush is behind the curve because he shortsightedly fears the turmoil of revolution...
Eventually, after about six people had settled down in our meeting room, the Boston Meditation Society began their "Meditation Intensive". Larry, a genial-looking, balding guy, did the first part of the talk. He explained that he and Steve--a younger, tanner, track-star type--are computer analysts in New York who lead perfectly average lives expect for the fact that they are serious students of meditation. These sessions, they said, were the result of their desire to share their experiences and discoveries with a larger group...
Acceptance may be getting easier for the younger generation of the gay community, according to several panelists, who cited the existence of gay awareness programs at private high schools like Milton and Andover Academies...
They reserved greatest scorn for younger generations. "With the college-bred youth leading the retrogression," Howard Schiffer Gans complained, "we have largely lost our individualism, our courage, and our capacity for moral indignation...