Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many who took his famous "English 2" did not realize until later years that Professor Kittredge had given them more than they were conscious of Shakespeare is rarely appreciated to the full by youth. But "Kitty, hammered into the minds of his students thoughts an dideas about the plays which, half forgotten in the early years of business or professional life, later have come back to illuminate not only Shakespeare but much else...
...mirths, and griefs, as one who is among them, taking a lively personal interest in their affairs. But in the last plays the "beautiful, pathetic light" is always present. They are the sufferers, aged, experienced and tried; in them we see Shakspere bending over the joys and sorrows of youth. This we sense through a total characterization, through a feeling and a presence, rather than by incident and statement. For over youth's beauty and love is shed a clear and tender luminosity not elsewhere in his writings. Power and glory are the master's as he puts the last...
...average theater-goer associates youth, music, love, beauty, gaiety, and laughter (never books) with college life, and consequently expects to see these elements in a college picture. The film producer, whose natural show manly preference lies more in the direction of snappy dialogue and dance routines than classroom dignity, knows this and is prepared to meet the demand. His pictures are intended for the film-going public as a whole, and not solely for a few hypercritical students. For this reason most college films, outside of the annual football epic (for which I offer no apologies) are musicals...
...disheartening job-hunting was necessary. Next month he becomes curate of Christ and St. Luke's Church in Norfolk (1,300 communicants). By the powers bestowed upon him last week by his Father in God & in flesh, Deacon Perry may assist in ministering Holy Communion, reading Scriptures, instructing youth, baptizing infants, may even preach with the permission of his bishop...
Considerably more colorful than the other winners was the dark and handsome youth of 21 who performed the most noteworthy feat for Spain. Juan Ignacio Pombo had been in love with Senorita Maria Elena Rivero Corral since they were children. When her father, a newspaper publisher, moved to Mexico City and took Maria along, Juan was not daunted. He had learned to fly at 16, and his own father had been Spain's first civilian pilot. He would fly 7,000 miles to his sweetheart's side. Juan collected some money in his home town of Santander, bought...