Word: youthe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...question was obviously not a good writer, the weatherman explained, he understood that all fledgling journalists dreamed of writing the Great American Novel or the Big Story. So when the locals measured in the young man's age and inexperience, he added, they should go easy on the misguided youth...
...Television in 1974, engineered a stunning turnaround. His first major move was to hire Silverman away from CBS to head ABC's programming department. Under the guidance of Silverman, "the man with the golden gut," ABC began turning out a rapid parade of hits. Many of them were raucous, youth-oriented comedies (Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley); others exploited buxom blonds and sexual humor ( (Three's Company, Charlie's Angels); still others were sentimental puffballs from Producer Aaron Spelling (Love Boat, Fantasy Island). In the 1974-75 season, ABC was last in the ratings at 16.6, more than 3 points behind...
Though Gorbachev may exhibit a more amiable personality than his predecessors, there is no reason to doubt that he is cut from the same ideological cloth. Despite his relative youth, he has not openly identified with the aspirations of Soviet citizens under age 30, who now make up half the population. His speeches at home often ring with the same doctrinaire phraseology as those of his most orthodox Politburo colleagues. Totally a product of his party's system, Gorbachev flourished by avoiding risks, not by taking them...
...gaining entrance to Moscow State University. Admission is notoriously hard to win; unless a student is exceptionally talented, he needs family influence to enter. The farm boy apparently got his boost from a good work record and from local party officials who had been impressed by the ambitious youth...
...Pasternak apartments were wonderfully well situated, offering panoramas of the city. When he wrote these memoirs the old architect returned to the windows of his youth, mapping out the neighborhood's elegant old houses and gardens, its serene little squares and grandiose churches and monuments as they opened up before him in memory...