Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that is evil in man is flaunted before the public. Reputations rise and fall as the years go on, but they are reputations built upon a blunder or a heroic gesture. An era of peace follows in which the nations analyze themselves, reckoning the wild abandon, of youth or a business depression as the heritage of war. During this era, men as well as nations analyze themselves and their fellows. A host of memories is foisted upon the people. Statesmen, generals, politicians all, in the perspective of the years, gloss their blunders and magnify their names, Reputations are made...
...Fascisti obey the Party and its Duce, think with it and him (as best they can). Further on in his letter Pope Pius accused Fascisti of "exposing youth to inspirations of hate and irreverence . . . rendering difficult and almost impossible the practice of religious duties . . . and . . . permitting public exhibitions of feminine athletics, the improprieties and inconveniences of which even pagans realized...
...statement by one of Socialism's ablest, most trustworthy advocates?38-year-old, athletic Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr, professor of applied Christianity at Union Theological Seminary. Calling himself a "tamed cynic," he is still known as one who aims to shock the complacent, to kinetize the nation's youth with his own high-powered enthusiasm. Son of a Missouri pastor, he was ordained in the Evangelical Church in 1915, held a Detroit pastorate until 1928. He is an editor of The World Tomorrow, a popular, dynamic orator. In his introduction to the Commission's report he says: "No matter...
...Forthright Socialists are its Chairman Francis Adams Henson, 26, a Columbia graduate student; Professor John Bennett (Philosophy of Religion) of Auburn Theological Seminary; Director Walter Ludwig of Pioneer Youth of America; Economics Instructor Patrick M. Malin of Swarthmore College; Field Secretary Paul Porter of the League for Industrial Democracy; Graduate Student E. B. Shultz of Union Theological Seminary; Industrial Secretary Charles Webber of the Fellowship of Reconciliation. Its other members: Harold F. Clark, Josephine Little, Lois MacDonald, Mildred I. Morgan, Clara Taylor, Sidnev David Gamble (Ivory Soap family...
...have it, form the motif of this carefully written, 610-page novel, which the Book League has nominated as its May choice. Ferdinand, son of an Austrian colonel, was orphaned young, and his old nurse Barbara became practically his foster-mother. A defenseless but not stupid boy, his youth was unhappy, and he would have taken the course of least resistance into the Church had not a stronger-minded friend rescued him. Then came the War, and once or twice it looked as though that would settle Ferdinand's hash. But he came through, with wounds, decorations...