Word: youthe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Council Chairman Gregory S Lyss '85, stopping down from the chair, led the argument that the council should investigate the matter before passing a resolution. "It would be inappropriate to discuss this as it would have to ensure Dean [of Student Archie C] Epps. as the friends of Spartacus Youth League asked as to do," said Lyss...
...trash a tearless but disgusted eye. Tourists had not been responsible for the beer cans, the dead radios, the broken whisky bottles and the rump-sprung chairs. The Indian knew that. Standing there by the mess, gray hair pulled back into a ponytail, he recalled a cleaner season. His youth had preceded plumbing, he said, and in those days, in winter, the only way a boy could prove to his mother that he had truly bathed was to sprint home from the Rio Grande while the ice still cleaved to his locks-a star-spangled...
...Communists of the 1930s as portrayed in Seeing Red were not spies. In their youth they became overwhelmed by discrimination and the disgraceful living and working conditions in the fields and slums all over the country; the disparity between the rich and the poor moved these Americans to action. Told that in Russia there was no discrimination, no poverty, and total equality, they adopted the communist country as their living model, accepting it book, line and sinker...
Testing the Current has no grand climax, none of the violent turns beloved by makers of films about youth. It presents a state of mind that existed when America seemed as green as Tommy and as vulnerable to the moment when, in Yeats' phrase, the ceremony of innocence is drowned. McPherson, a Washington Post journalist and winner of the 1977 Pulitzer Prize for literary criticism, might well be excused for showing the influence of the writers he reviewed for so many years. Happily, their shadows never appear. The author's imagery and style are wholly his own; from...
...ranch, Reagan and I agreed on most things. On the draft, however, we did not. Reagan, as a conservative, believes that compulsory military service is an invasion of the right of the individual to free choice. Urging him to moderate this doctrinaire view, I argued that our youth should grow up with a sense of obligation to the nation...