Word: youngers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shows no signs of slowing this breakneck pace. Fit and tanned, he looks ten or twenty years younger than his 72 years. Memories of his varied experiences are precious to him--hence the diaries. "The journals are neither literature nor works of art," he says, "but simply graphic narratives of good years in a good life, traces of one person's presence on earth that otherwise would be erased by time." The journals spur Goodfriend on to greater adventure. "To me, each new year becomes a batch of blank pages provoking and evoking experiences worthy of record. Dull lives make...
Society slowly accorded children their own activities. Such 19th century writers as Lewis Carroll and Charles Dickens for the first time created a literature especially for younger readers. As parents began to regard play as a natural, even educational activity, toys began to appear on artists' canvases, and children were shown in more informal poses. William Sidney Mount portrayed the Brooks youngsters poised with their hoop; an unknown artist depicted the little Wilsons with their dog and rocking horse...
...your nose at the world and go about your business. We take about 10% of the work that comes into the office, and the rest we turn down " Johnson-Burgee and I.M. Pei & Partners are the two "hot" corporate firms in American architecture today; and between Johnson and Pei, younger architects tend to side with Johnson, the maverick...
...going to last for long, and there were some hints, even in those days, that things were going to change. The questioning, anti-social youth hero who became so prevalent in the '60s was an outgrowth of the discontent that the structured '50s produced, especially among the younger people in the country. Rock and Roll emerged; for the first time black music and white music tentatively merged, a synthesis that gained tremendous popularity. The movies too, began to show some shift in outlook among the kids growing up in America. The confused, "unrespectable" heros portrayed on the screen by Dean...
...only vestige of the old years that remains is the atmosphere: the comfortable, genteel elegance that pervades the building. The wood paneling, carefully polished floors and gracious service of the staff remind elder members of a bygone era and appeal to the younger members as part of a Harvard they never knew. The club has changed over the years, but "conspicuous displays" remain out of order at the Harvard Club...