Word: youthe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...back in 1965, Queen Elizabeth summoned a conference to plan his future. Her husband Prince Philip, her Prime Minister Harold Wilson, her Archbishop of Canterbury Michael Ramsey and a pride of other notables soon agreed on the prince's schooling and military service. But then what? The youth being trained to become King of England might find himself blocked from that or any other position for decades...
...After years of being the No. 1 royal attraction, he has been eclipsed by his wife. This both irks and relieves him. Becoming a father and taking a supporting role have made this reflective, well-meaning man even more introspective. Years ago he had seemed to pass from gawky youth directly to a kind of complacent middle age. Only now does he appear to be going through a kind of belated identity crisis, questioning the certainties that he once routinely accepted...
...Royal Biographer Robert Lacey: "He has to develop a strategy for the ten to 20 years before he takes the throne. He cannot spend them politely expressing interest in problems." The Prince, indeed, seems on the verge of becoming an activist. He spends considerable time and effort on the "youth initiative" of the Prince's Trust, a program that helps young people start their own businesses. Troubled by high British unemployment rates, he would like to extend the scheme to every major city in the country. He has spoken of the responsibility that Big Business has to help the urban...
...conscious hope "to have been doing semiotics and not merely to have been writing about it." It is Barthes, however, who executes the language of language with consummate grace. Whether he is posing with candid self exposure in a Playboy interview ("I had a super skinny morphology throughout my youth") or indulging in speculation about the culinary orgasms of Brillat-Savarin ("BS desires the word as he desires truffles") or performing with routine ease a classic clinical dissection of text ("A Textual Analysis of a Tale of Poe"), it is with an incomparable delicacy of taste that he transforms personal...
...everyone in the small crowd agreed with Kelly's interpretation. His viewpoint was contested by three members of the Spartacus Youth League, who used the question-and-answer period to attack the ISO's position on Russian ideologies and the solidarity movement in Poland...