Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small hours before dawn, 5,000 students gathered for a political parade through Chungking. They were dressed in the motley of China's youth-family hand-me-downs, G.I. castoffs, ragged patches. Many had walked as much as 20 miles to the city. A university dean accompanied them-in a ricksha supplied with sandwiches and oranges for wilted marchers...
Every Saturday night in Chicago's 2,500-capacity Orchestra Hall, Youth for Christ rallies listen to this sort of old-fashioned evangelistic appeal. The evangelist: blond, cheerleaderish, 36-year-old Torrey Johnson-director, sparkplug and guiding spirit of "Chicagoland Youth for Christ," president of Youth for Christ International...
...Youth for Christ rallies began in New York in 1940 under the two-fisted leadership of a handsome young ex-insurance salesman, Jack Wyrtzen, whose zest for life had previously found its outlet in playing the trombone for a cavalry band. It mushroomed in Washington, D.C., Detroit, Indianapolis and St. Louis, and then in 1944 Baptist Torrey Johnson (pastor of Chicago's Midwest Bible Church) organized "Chicagoland" for Christ, quickly took over as a national leader. Today Y.F.C.'s rough estimates-there are no others-put the movement's strength at 300 "units...
Erich Maria Remarque confessed, after 17 years, that he had not planned All Quiet on the Western Front as an "antiwar book." Said he: "I was simply interested in portraying the reaction of youth facing death." To writer Remarque the really effective anti-war book would be a picture-book. Nevertheless he was still writing, was following up a new novel (see BOOKS) with yet another, about German crimes and German mistakes. "The human mind forgets too quickly," explained between-the-wars best-seller Remarque. "The simple fact that a man has survived the war . . . makes him, after a short...
...just a literary exercise published in the school magazine of Manhattan's private Buckley School (for boys). But into his contribution, nine-year-old Kenneth Auchincloss put some of the long, long thoughts of youth. Wrote...