Word: youthe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...traditional forms of society: good taste, politeness, moderation in dress and volume, and the family. Painters, writers and musicians had accomplished a similar negation before any of today's punks were born. The fractured images of any of Picasso's Guernica period paintings are as visually disturbing as a youth with a safety pin through his cheek. Atonal symphonies, far more dissonant and demanding than anything a punk can create with simple feedback techniques, have existed since the days when people still listened to Glen Miller. The best indicator of the punk ethic's staleness, though, is the Dadas...
...sparsely attended "emergency demonstration" yesterday, members of Spartacus Youth League (SYL) carried placards and made speeches denouncing United States foreign policy in Nicaragua...
...grants ranged from $1500 for a Phillips Brooks House project to $50 to fund friends of the Spartans Youth League publicity costs...
Later on in the story, this entirely fictional percent sees, after a long while, the unattainable desire of his youth: "He understood all of a sudden that... everything, in his life and everything in the world was only because of Isa Maria Bietti; and now finally he saw her again their eyes met and Isa Maria Bietti didn't recognize him...the eyeglasses that made the rest of the world visible to him, those eyeglasses in their enormous black frames, made him invisible...
...given the temper of his times, a reactionary all along. The faintly scandalous success of the comic novels Decline and Fall (1928) and Vile Bodies (1930) made their author the most prominent spokesman for the Bright Young People of his generation. London newspapers offered fees for his thoughts on youth. He did not give them exactly what they expected. "I admire almost anything about old people," he wrote in 1930. Waugh, as it turned out, was not kidding about his reverence for maturity and tradition. Several months later he converted to Roman Catholicism...