Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...general nature, though in Chapter Four of its Report it examines specific aspects. The secondary school, it concludes, must be concerned with the physical and mental health of its pupils. ". . . The educational process has somewhat failed of its purpose," says the Report, "if it has produced the merely bookish youth who lacks spirit and is all light without warmth...
French Academician Andre Siegfried, author, economist and world traveler, after 50 years of reading U.S. newspapers, paid them a Gallic compliment. The U.S. press, said he, "has reached maturity but without having lost its youth. Especially it has preserved its real genius, which is that of a reporter. It is interested in everything...
...very much on guard, decided to stay on the bridge with the Jap captain during the search. For two and a half hours they held what White called "a strictly pink-tea conversation." The Jap captain, who said he had spent ten years in New York City as a youth, asked how the New York Yankees were doing, wanted to know if Babe Ruth was still alive, said he missed American movies and magazines. (When they went back to their ship, the Americans sent over some old copies of TIME and the Reader's Digest...
Czechoslovakia last week had lost one of the democratic features of which it has always been most proud-its free press. By Government order, newspapers, instead of being privately owned, must henceforth represent political parties, trade unions, youth movements and other organized groups. They retain the right to criticize the Government and individuals so long as they do not impair the safety of the nation...
Edmund Wilson has chosen the pieces for The Crack-Up so carefully that they lead in a straight, chronological line from Fitzgerald's youth and glory to his maturity and misery. Every aspect of his life and work - the brilliant, the second-rate, the real, the illusory - is shown. Readers may differ on the question of Fitzgerald's survival value, but they will respect Author Wescott's statement that Fitzgerald's life and fate mirrored the life and fate of a whole period of American life. "He was our darling, our genius, our fool. ... He lived...