Word: youthe
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...certain dynamism," said Chairman of the Orchestra's Board of Trustees, Leslie J. Garfield. "In view of his youth, tremendous enthusiasm, his knowledge of music, and the way he related to orchestra members and they to he, he emerged as the leading conductor...
After a nation-wide search, the New York Youth Symphony selected Samuel T. Wong '84, currently a Harvard medical student and freshman proctor, as its music director for the 1988-1989 season...
...Youth Orchestra officials said they selected Wong in part because of his youth. "For the past 25 years, the orchestra's board of trustees has encouraged and leaned towards giving younger and generally less experienced people an opportunity for growth and development of their talents," said Steven D. Shaiman, manager of operations of the orchestra...
...glided up to the corner of Vernon and Raymond avenues in South Central Los Angeles. Words were exchanged between the young men in the car, members of a Crips street gang, and a 16-year-old who was hanging out on the sidewalk. Suddenly, the mobile "gangbangers" blasted the youth. A moment later, they turned their guns on a pedestrian across the street...
Other institutions in society also play an important role in the development of young people--especially families, schools, and communities of faith. But only a minority of children will live their entire youth in a two-parent family, and the time they spend with adults of any kind has been dropping steadily for several decades. Schools are often preoccupied with problems of racial integration, political intervention, drugs, and strikes while suffering the effects of a long-term decline in the status of teachers. Religious institutions no long seem as able as they once were to impart basic values...