Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Russians, who have been watching the spectacle with a wild surmise, officially protested: the U.S. must modify its athletic program, stop teaching baseball to Germany's youth. Reason: it is too militaristic...
Once in a while the long arm of the law reaches to hold up a slipping brassiere or a dropping G-string, and occasionally competition has threatened the leadership of the Old Howard, but never did its loyal following of beardless youth and balded age fall away...
Tito carefully fosters this jingoism. Sound trucks in every village spout nationalist propaganda. Grade-school readers contain pictures of rifles, tanks, and airplanes. All young Yugoslavs are compulsory members of Tito's National Youth Organization, where they get technical and military training. Ascetic discipline is rigidly preached and enforced (sexual promiscuity is almost as serious an offense as a weakness for capitalism). Martial virtues are also inculcated. For months after the German surrender, female partisans were allowed to carry hand grenades at their sides (until one exploded during a jitterbug session...
...Komsomolskaya Pravda (Communist Youth's Truth) one B. Dairedzhiev last week blasted the magazine Oktyabr (October) for "bourgeois sentimentality." He particularly singled out a story called "Comrade Anna," about a Soviet family whose happiness was blighted when the father fell in love with another woman...
...Place Too Smiling. The struggling peasants of Hardy's youth had at least the support and consolation of the village church. But as the 19th Century unfolded its industrial and scientific secrets, Hardy became convinced that the Christian God would slowly recede into the limbo of forgotten mythologies. As an atheist, he accepted such a development as inevitable; as an artist and a tenderhearted human being, he was horrified...