Word: youthe
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...images of their clients, whether they be the elderly, ethnics, gays or whatever. To the list you cited you might have added two more: the use of the word "special" to describe children with mental or emotional problems. What does that make the rest of the world's youth? Ordinary? The other is the reference to the physically handicapped as the "physically challenged." Are we to believe that the physically able never have to overcome obstacles in their lives...
Some members of the Spartacus Youth League tend to be avowed Communists. I am an American and a registered Democrat, so this is an unsettling fact. They also tend to write with a lot of exclamation points and use inflammatory phrases. I am an aspiring journalist, so this style of writing seems distasteful. Talking with one as he tried to sell me Young Spatacus, for example, I had to point out that the phrase "white-hooded Ku Klux Klan scum" was too strong a tone to take; it was also redundant...
...Sparts have been seen and hated on campus, most recently when Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger '38 spoke (or rather, had trouble speaking) at Sanders Theater. Two members of the Spartacus Youth League subsequently came before the Administrative Board for violating freedom of speech rights. If found heckling again, the two may be suspended from Harvard College...
...parochial to illuminate the human condition." In excerpts from his poems we see the ruined abbey of Corcomroe in County Clare and, later, the forbidding Norman tower in Galway: "An ancient bridge, and a more ancient tower" which Yeats made his summer house. And in "Reveries over Childhood and Youth." Yeats reminisces about Lissadell House, the home of a favourite Anglo-Irish family...
...technical excellence in the pursuit of artistic expression. In 1916 Adams took along a Kodak box Brownie on a trip to Yosemite Valley, and what he saw through that lens awakened the taste of a lifetime. The mountains gave him not only his subject but an occupation: as a youth he took a caretaker's job there for the Sierra Club. Later, he would sit on the club's board of directors for 37 years and become an unflagging champion of environmental protection...