Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When former Premier Mendès-France outlined a program to benefit youth last fall, he found a cautious but widespread response. Unfortunately, it didn't last. After Mendès' fall, France's younger generation slid back into collective indifference. Like his elders, the French youngster has come to believe in every-man-for-himself...
...afternoon wore on, quietus got an "o," badinage became batonage, and a youngster blurted g-y-r-o-c . . . for gyroscopic and with a despairing cry ("I missed it!") sat down. By 5 p.m. only three contestants were left. Quincunx,'' shot the pronouncer at Naomi Klein of the Yeshiva of Flatbush school (Brooklyn, N.Y.)-and then there were only...
...never so much as rhymed hell and seashell. Some of the stories sing of the same Welsh town he saluted in Under Milk Wood; others are rambling, obscurely symbolic excursions into weirder regions. In Skin Trade it was Thomas' sardonic intention to tell how a youngster from the provinces lands in London, much as he himself did. Before the boy sets out for the big city, he daydreams about what it will be like. He sees himself knocking at a rooming house and an Irish girl appearing at the door...
...father's reluctance became shockingly clear. The family and all the neighbors danced, sang and drank deep at a gay, all-night wake, planned days before and sanctioned by their belief that all children who die go happily and directly to heaven. An ill-timed cure of the youngster would have embarrassed the whole community, most of all the father in his role as begetter of the fiesta...
Like DeMille, Goldwyn is enthusiastically spreading out in his movie as if he were an ambitious youngster with new Hollywood fields to conquer. A foxy lone wolf-no partners, no board of directors, no bank financing-Goldwyn probably knows as much about Hollywood and its half century of history as any man alive. But another Goldwynism covers the situation. "I'm never going to write my autobiography," he says, "as long as I live...