Word: youngers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...know what? I think you get to a point where you don't care any more and you become kind of proud of not liking what's cool. It's kind of a relief to let that fall off you. I think when I was younger I definitely cared what's cool but I don't think I was easily swayed by conventional taste either...
...Certainly it would not be good for Harvard to deprived of younger scholars and teachers," Lewis said. "There are many important fields, as well as the Core curriculum, where we do not offer enough courses, by faculty of any age," he said. "I look forward to growth in the size of the Faculty in certain important areas...
...disappointments were legion: the vanquishing of Hashemite rule in Jerusalem and the West Bank; the vain efforts to negotiate a permanent Palestinian settlement; the bittersweet peace with Israel; even the falling out with his younger brother Hassan in the last six months of his life. His quiet but unflinching partnership with the West earned him little but trouble from other Arab states. Despite everything, his charisma and unwavering hope created a powerful bond with his subjects and made Jordan one of the Middle East's most respected nations...
...Partisan Review and Commentary. But it was Norman Podhoretz, in his young rooster's memoir, Making It (1968), who gave the term currency. In the Family (Philip Rahv, Mary McCarthy, Dwight Macdonald, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Irving Howe, Harold Rosenberg, Hannah Arendt and others), Podhoretz played a noisy, precocious younger brother, an irritant who would not stay put ideologically. In recoil against the Eisenhower inertia, Podhoretz had steered to the radical left by the early '60s. But then, appalled at the anti-Americanism and cultural wreckage of the Vietnam era, he headed hard right. In 1960 he became editor...
MATURE MOMS Getting on in years shouldn't prevent you from having a healthy child, according to a new study. Researchers found that while women who give birth in their 40s may suffer more complications like high blood pressure or gestational diabetes, they are just as likely as their younger counterparts to have healthy babies. That goes for first-time moms as well as those who have had kids before...