Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Robert Woods. But most of what happened to Woody in the three-year interim was what happens to every cadet. He was rolled, ground, grooved and calibered into shape by the same basic regimen that West Point has followed for more than a century. This process for molding military youth was set up by one of the neglected great men of U.S. education, a graduate of West Point as well as of Dartmouth. His name was Sylvanus Thayer...
Joseph Clark Baldwin, dapper socialite New York Congressman, made a straight-faced proposal that U.S. film actors be "lend-leased" to Europe to re-educate the enemy: "Overnight they would be able to do more good in inspiring confidence in the Nazi and Fascist-trained youth of Europe than all of the unknown professional educators we are now contemplating sending abroad...
...latest burst of showmanship, the Met has exhibited its Greek treasures in rooms newly decorated in pleasingly subtle colors. On the prize exhibit-a magnificent 600 B.C. Kouros (Youth)-six concealed spotlights play. This accent on youth underlines a thesis: the vigorous, thunderous centuries before the golden age of Pericles are Greece's glory quite as much as the familiar classical period of the 5th Century...
...trustees of a suburban Boston preparatory school were looking for a new headmaster. One candidate they considered was an alumnus then teaching chemistry at Harvard. They rejected him because of his "youth and inexperience." Three months later the alumnus, James Bryant Conant, was chosen president of Harvard. The pick-&-choosy school, Roxbury Latin, is this week celebrating its 300th anniversary. Alumnus Conant, proud of his old school's high standards, will be there to help celebrate...
...late, great ex-Senator George William Norris finished dictating his autobiography. Fighting Liberal is not a great book. His heroic battles in Congress were no longer vivid in its old (83), tired author's mind. Like many another old man, George Norris at the end was reliving his youth. As the story of a boyhood in the frontier, post-Civil War Midwest, Fighting Liberal is authentic Americana...