Word: youthe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...must train our youth to end slums and rebuild America." Jackson shouts in his deep preacher's cadence...
...body lying in a marsh outside the Iraqi village of Al Beida was badly decomposed, but the swollen face appeared to be that of a youth. The Iranian soldier had apparently died of a head wound suffered in the battle to keep Al Beida, now little more than a ghost town of rubble, from slipping back into Iraqi hands. He would have remained an unknown casualty of an equally unknown skirmish in the Persian Gulf war, if the Iraqi information officer who was leading foreign journalists on a tour of the front had not stopped to pick...
Childhood, that traditional turf of the first novelist, is examined at a distance in William McPherson's refreshing debut, Testing the Current (Simon & Schuster; 348 pages; $15.95). The slow awakening of youth is noted in minutely observed and somewhat magnified detail, but at a third-person remove, almost as if the author were examining his cast through binoculars...
...approximately 100 B.C. Leonardo da Vinci described atherosclerosis in his Dell'Anatomia, identifying it as the cause of a "slow death without any fever" that afflicts the elderly. It was not until this century that scientists began to realize that this disease of advancing age actually begins in youth, especially in cultures where the diet is rich. More than 77% of the American soldiers killed in the Korean War were found in autopsies to have blood vessels narrowed by atherosclerosis. Their average age: 22. The arteries of the young soldiers in the opposing forces-Koreans raised on a diet...
Awake and Sing! was immeasurably aided by the personnel of the new Group Theater, and by its star, a youth named John Garfield, who ignited the stage when he stepped upon it. But even they could not disguise the strident, metallic lyricism ("Say the word-I'll tango on a dime"). Nor can the current cast hide the muddled thoughts of the author, who felt that "new artworks should shoot bullets" but who filled the theater with smoke...