Word: youthe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stop conferring and are ready. "The boy in the green top," Hornaday calls out, and, hesitantly, the third youth in line eases to the front. "The pink tights." As the wearer of that garment comes forward, the woman next to her winces at having been passed by. After another huddle, Hornaday says, "That's all." Immediately, a silver-haired man with a clipboard steps in from the side of the stage and intones in a swift singsong, "Those in the front line, please wait on the right. For the rest, thank you very much and please leave, as quickly...
...trouble gives an idea of the insurgents' operational power. Barely five minutes away, in San Lorenzo, there is a military barracks where they were not aware or did not choose to be aware of what was happening. When I arrived in San Lorenzo, I was impressed by the youth of the soldiers. Some, really just children, were playing beneath the luxuriant ceiba tree that shades the main square. "In theory the recruits are not younger than 16," says General Vides Casanova. "But in practice there are many 15-year-olds...
...ridden plot line that becomes readily apparent in the first 15 minutes--so much so, in fact, that the audience finds itself anticipating the characters' actions well in advance of their execution. And though some of the performances are surprisingly quite professional in spite of most of the actors youth and limited experience, the performers with few exceptions fail to transcend their stereotyped role...
...group, which will hold its first meeting on Wednesday night, will "review the policies and procedures of the Police Department as they relate to the youth division." City Manager Robert W. Healy announced last night...
...spartan rooms at Harvard's Adams House, the poet can be persuaded to summon up his youth in County Derry, outside Belfast. "I was one of eight surviving children," he recalls. One of his earliest poems, "MidTerm Break," records the funeral of his young brother, struck by a car and buried in "a four foot box, a foot for every year." Young Seamus might have followed his father into the fields, had he not been introduced as a teen-ager to the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, the English Roman Catholic convert who became a priest and master poet...