Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British intelligence officers had watched the plot develop for months. Under the direction of one-armed Arthur Axmann, once Reichsjugendführer, responsible only to Hitler, former Hitler Youth leaders were grouping themselves in innocent-looking business firms, preserving their organization, biding their time. Then, suddenly, the Allies struck. When a wild night of house raids and gun battles was over, 800 young Nazis were behind bars...
...visit from atomic chemist Charles Coryell one day last fall. He told the students: "Unless the atom bomb is controlled for peace, one out of three persons in this auditorium will probably die of the effects of atomic energy." The Oak Ridge school kids, soberly shocked, organized a Youth Council on the Atomic Crisis (which they promptly nicknamed...
Here again Olivier helped out Shakespeare. Shakespeare gave to a cynical soldier the great speech: But if the cause be not good, etc. Olivier puts it in the mouth of a slow-minded country boy (Brian Nissen). The boy's complete lack of cynicism, his youth, his eyes bright with sleepless danger, the peasant patience of his delivery, and his Devon repetition of the tolled word die as doy, lift this wonderful expression of common humanity caught in human war level with the greatness of the King...
...always the same vow, same youth, same pure eyes, same caress, same revelation. But . . . never the same woman. The cards said I will meet her, but without recognizing her. Loving love ... 150 castles where we were going to love were not enough for me. I will have 100,000 more built tomorrow. (Woman's voice. gradually fading : Mon amour, mon amour, mon amour, mon amour...
Permanent Adolescent. Housman seems essentially to have remained an adolescent, all of his 77 years. At their weakest, his emotions had the innocent, arrogant self-pity, the horribly magnanimous sentimentality, the incontinent irony, of which extreme youth is capable. At their best, they had the Roman stoicism and the Athenian sentience which are sometimes the glory of the very fine-souled when they are very young. In most of his verse their blend is irreducible, but it is fertilized by a minor yet miraculous poetic gift...