Word: youthe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard considers "youth" to be a risk, why does the University continue to employ a relatively young junior faculty? Why, specifically, is the English department currently looking to hire a new junior faculty member straight out of graduate school...
...surprised to learn that Masten's youth might have been held against him, that younger scholars constitute a risk to smaller departments. There's nothing in his history of publication suggesting as much. And to anyone who has ever worked with Masten, studied with him, heard him speak at professional events, exchanged writing with him or sat down in his office, the notion that this individual is dicey as either scholar or citizen is so contrary to the evidence as to offend judgment...
Much of Bott's own unorthodox youth was spent avoiding educational systems that emphasized rote learning. Born in Budapest on September 24, 1923, to a Jewish mother and a Catholic father, he lived the first 16 years of his life in the Hungarian part of Slovakia. His parents divorced soon after he was born, but Bott nonetheless led a childhood of affluence, since his new stepfather was a high-ranking manager in a sugar factory...
...eldest child, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, 46, displayed so much moral earnestness that, in her youth, her brothers dubbed her "the Nun." Turning to politics, she was at first squeamish about trumpeting her maiden name and lost a 1986 congressional race in Maryland. But in 1994 she let it work its magic and became Lieutenant Governor. Holding such un-Kennedy-like stands as support for the death penalty, she is seen as a future candidate for Governor...
...what's the story? Has the myth of the slacker generation finally rubbed off on our youth? Many explanations are being bandied around, like a sense of powerlessness, or "senioritis" ? simple excitement at the thought of actually making it to college. The most convincing, at least in terms of the lack of political enthusiasm, is the fact that the '90s are not the '60s ? there are no burning political issues these days. As for what the researchers gently term a "disengagement with studies," perhaps, unlike in Clinton's freshman year, there's too much inhaling going...