Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drafting a revolutionary blueprint for the broken towns of western France. His colleague, Auguste Ferret, is directing 45 architects on the reconstruction of Le Havre. Their first project has already materialized-a new bourse (stock exchange), built in 60 days out of salvaged brick. Around Rouen and St. Quentin "youth teams" of the Ministry of Labor are learning the building trades, forming the nucleus of a French CCC. The Government also hopes for 300,000 to a million German (slave) laborers...
...Professor Shapley has noticed that spiral galaxies have many star clusters and star clouds - a sign of youth, not age. A star cluster, he observed, is unstable. As it rotates, its stars, revolving at various speeds around the cluster's nucleus, are torn apart by "shearing forces" which break up the cluster and disperse the stars evenly through the galaxy...
...less interesting and important than Volume I (TIME, Jan. 10, 1944), which described brilliantly the conflict between Latin and U.S. cultures as sensed by an uncommonly perceptive youth. But Santayana's extraordinary mind and masterly prose could not produce a dull or unimportant book. He writes about the great figures of his time the way other biographers write about eccentric family servants. And he writes about friends unknown to the world-Andrew Green, "Swelly" Bangs, Bob Barlow, Howard Gushing, Howard Sturgis, Bob Potter, Lawrence Butler-as if they were philosophers whose minds he studied as he studied those...
...sick youth gave no sign that he had heard. His eyes were closed and he breathed with difficulty. The chaplain began the Lord's Prayer: 'Our Father, who art in heaven. . . .' Behind him the amputees took up the prayer . . . but the dying boy seemed not to have heard. He still fought for breath...
Rosamond Lehmann, one of England's most distinguished woman novelists, is the daughter of a onetime editor of Punch. She began writing in her youth, was first published at 16, then stopped for years because she could find only cliches in her work. She married a painter, bore him two children and in 1927 published Dusty Answer, a moving first novel that revealed great promise...