Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...away from it all for a few brief moments, he flew to West Point at week's end. There he saw the Army-Oklahoma football game and spoke with engaging frankness to the cadets: "In my youth, many, many years ago, I had hopes of being a member of this Corps. I didn't make it. I am sure-morally certain-that if I had made it, I think I would have made a good officer...
Baldur von Schirach, 39-year-old head of the Hitler Youth organization; 20 years...
Born in Birkenhead, England, Powell Davies spent a robust youth on his father's farm (he rode a bull calf at the age of two, wore out five motorcycles). He almost went into British politics, finally decided that "the crucial field was an honest, believable religion," was graduated from London University's Richmond College of Divinity in 1925. For three years he was a Methodist minister in London, then left for the U.S. and two consecutive pastorates in Maine...
...colleges and nine student organizations sponsored the twenty-five delegates. From campuses as widely scattered as Harvard and the University of California, from organizations as diverse as the National Catholic Youth Council and American Youth for Democracy, the group represented a real cross section of the American student body. By chance, Harvard had a second delegate in the person of William Ellis '44, who was sent by the Y.M.C.A. of America...
This week, in an introduction to a new edition of Brave New World (Harper, $2.50; 311 pp.), Novelist Huxley casts a cold eye over his fantasy, firmly classes it among "the artistic sins committed and bequeathed by that different person who was oneself in youth." It is now too late, says Author Huxley, to try and "patch up" Brave New World; all that can be done is to investigate its conclusions. Some fresh findings...