Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unlike the problem of German re-education, Salvemini stated that the corresponding problem in Italy was an overestimated one. "Fascism was for the most part a superficial organization," he added, "and you will find that Italian youth, contrasted to German youth, fought against the fascist government by joining the partisans in large numbers...
Unperturbed. Boss Hague disregarded such criticism for broader subjects less susceptible of factual proof. There was sin abroad. (Hague is against sin: he allows no prostitutes, burlesque shows or nightclubs in Jersey City.) There was the city's youth. Brassily the mayor intoned: "I have never developed into a reformer, but I have always tried to set an example for the younger folk...
...some of its sparkle. But there are reassuring factors: although two of Mrs. Pierson's boys apparently attended a well-known university in New Haven, her youngest son Frankie spent his undergraduate days in Cambridge. And even when Mrs. Pierson was a young filly stopping out with the college youth of Connecticut, she remembered to tell them that her Crimson friends had "warned her about Yalemen...
...dark, ugly brick and stone houses of Wreissensee and Pankow. Here had lived the hundreds of thousands of Berliners who had known the kicks and cuffs of the little Nazi bosses. These were Berlin's onetime centers of Socialism and Communism. Now there were SS troopers and Nazi youth fighting from flaming block to block, from the warehouses and factories turned into fortresses...
...judges more charitably and thinks better of mankind than my youth ever did. I discount idealizations, I forgive one-sidedness, I see that it is essential to perfection of any kind. And in each person I catch the fleeting suggestion of something beautiful, and swear eternal friendship with that...