Word: youngers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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John Weisbrod V had always worshipped John Weisbrod IV, and the elder Weisbrod had always encouraged the younger's interest in hockey. It was Weisbrod IV who bought season tickets to the beloved Rangers and the hated Islanders...
...representatives voted 143 to 58 to prohibit most abortions after 24 weeks, require that women be informed of the medical risks of abortion and impose a 24-hr. waiting period. Michigan's senate approved a bill that would require parental consent to abortions for girls 17 years old or younger...
Readers will have to take sides here, or struggle to find a compromise somewhere in the middle ground. For beneath its endlessly diverting surface, Eco's novel constitutes a litmus test for ways of looking at history and the world. Casaubon, the narrator, recalls himself as a younger man, when he was willing to take facts at face value, to be what he calls incredulous. He recognizes and scorns another manner of thinking: "If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that connects them, that...
Having acquired a certain license, in my 40th year, to speak of the "younger generation," I must confess that all this rather severely depresses me. On the Harvard campus where I teach, for example, rarely, if ever, do I see the brazen, sap-running spectacle of a hand held, a partner embraced, a kiss tendered (wet or dry), and I cannot help but ask these high-flying, career-tracing, dollar-sniffing, supposedly "younger" persons of the passionate years (to quote someone from their generation, Tracy Chapman): "If not now...when...
Getz says he organizes telethons andletter-writing campaigns for younger classes. And,recently, he was invited to a fundraising workshopat Harvard that included a session entitled,"Soliciting for Major Gifts...