Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the Nazis he had lived in unpolitical retirement ("I spoke critically of the Nazis in private but I did not speak publicly"). Of his new job Dr. Fuchs said: "My greatest aim is to inculcate a new Christian spirit in our youth, a Christian spirit in which both Catholic and Protestant churches must collaborate...
...coarseness of speech, the slang and profanity, the rude, selfish manners, loud raucous laughter, the low standards of taste . . . the passion of our vile movies, our viler music, the craze for maniacal gyrations, euphemistically called the modern dance . . . are characteristic of a growing number of our youth today...
...already outgrown its new $50,000 church. Pastor Youngdahl was holding three identical services every Sunday, each overflowing the 465 seats and jamming the church to the doors. To meet the rush, he planned to split $400,000 between a new postwar church building and a Sunday school, youth center and gymnasium...
...town. Then he set out after new members. He told his parishioners that he believes that church member ship is a "seven-day-a-week proposition"; if they wanted to belong, they would have to keep busy. They do-in thirteen women's and social clubs, four youth groups, two missionary societies, a day nursery...
...England like dubious mushrooms- gutter lovers, Beau Brummels, professional sensualists, practical jokers, drug fiends. Mildest, most influential apostle of the new, sensuous estheticism was Oxford's Walter Pater. As a child, he had loved to don a surplice and "preach sermons to his admiring Aunt Betty." As a youth, he had avoided horse play ("I do not seem to want a black eye"). As a professor, he coined a famed phrase when he solemnly urged his students "to burn always with [a] hard, gemlike flame." "Oh, for Crime!" But most of Pater's fellow esthetes took their rebellion...