Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...River of Perfumes, to the forbidden city of Hué, over the walls of the Red City and into the white dragon-eaved Palace. There, last week, among his jazz records, his ping-pong tables, his radio and his detective stories, it found and smote that gloomy youth, Bao Dai, hereditary Emperor of Annam, Son of Heaven, Absolute Master and Father and Mother of his People-and French puppet. Too bored to look sullen. Bao Dai spent his life from 9 to 19 in Europe, where he had let himself be crammed with a good French education and good French...
...years have to some extent broken down the apathetic attitude of American students toward politics. This is unquestionably a desirable process, and may with benefit proceed a great deal further. At the same time, it is well to mark off the field for undergraduate action in politics. National youth movements have been organized in Italy, Germany, and Russia with a definite place in the political scheme. Students exert great political influence in Latin countries, and Cuban students were at one period dictators to the administration. There are those who would have American students take a similar part in political activities...
...other half of the Paramount-Fenway program is "The Last Round-Up," based on Zane Grey's "Border Legion." It would be easy to criticize the plot and the "acting" of the hatchet-faced lass and the Arrow-collar youth who take the leads and whom Paramount Pictures attempt to introduce as "Stars of the future," but to do this alone would give an unfair impression of the presentation. There is action, hard-riding, good scenery, fast shooting, and here and there a hard right to the jaw. Insofar as "The Last Round-Up" is a step back...
...Herr Hitler's government enjoys a unanimity of support that has never before been given to any German government. This support is based on the pathological condition of the German people, on a state of mind induced by post-war defeatism which was particularly strong in the disillusioned youth of the Republic. Thus the public mind was in a peculiarly plastic form and the Nazis were able to mold it with the greatest ease and confidence...
Original "I fought in the War as a soldier in the ranks. I know what war means. Terrible memories of those years when whole generations of youth of so many countries were laid low by the hail of lead have not been cancelled from my mind...