Word: youngers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lillie Mae, her mother, whose name she eventually took, had a more placid disposition. But almost from the minute they finished with diapers, she found herself unable to control Lily and her brother Richard, who was four years younger. One day Lily and Richard decided that the living-room sofa would look better as a sectional. Practical kids, they picked up a saw and divided it into three pieces...
...creation of five new fellowships for "outstanding younger scholars whose research promises to be a significant contribution to Afro-American Studies...
...same thing as when blacks started to work in TV," grouses a leading Washington correspondent. "Instead of bringing them along slowly, the tendency has been to put them in high-visibility positions for which they're not prepared." TV newswomen do tend to be younger and less experienced than their male colleagues. For that reason and because they are "the first wave," they are highly competitive. As NBC Correspondent Douglas Kiker puts it, "When you want somebody to go out in a blizzard on a Sunday night to do a 30-second spot, they say, 'Send...
...Yale graduate who has written five unpublished novels, Tucker hopes to enliven the magazine's high-minded mix of essays, reviews and reportage to draw a younger audience. "It's a damn good magazine with a lot of interesting stuff," he says, "but it's always somebody's aunt who reads it. None of my contemporaries do. I only began reading it after that breakfast...
...first book (and the new volume in the Yale Series of Younger Poets), Greek-born Olga Broumas, 27, displays both reckless energy and passion. Her subject is sexual love between women, and her allusions range from the classical goddesses through fairytale heroines to such contemporary poets as Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. The poems portray lesbianism as a brave new world, a terrain that women have been tricked (by themselves and men) into avoiding. To the uncertain, Broumas offers a refuge in eroticism...