Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When flags were waving and the youth of the nation was marching off to keep aggressors away, none of those left behind were worried about our emotional reaction to the sudden change. But now everyone is writing a book or jumping on the bandwagon with helpful suggestions on how to train the returning animal to live in his own home...
...Great centers like Frankfurt (see below) and Mannheim had become ghost cities, stark in their architectured wreckage, starker in their human disintegration. The few Germans left behind were unheroic, impenitent, apathetic, sullen, unable or unwilling to believe what had happened. The diehards were mostly adolescent gangs, leftovers of Hitler Youth, who fought street battles between themselves, spied on Allied authorities and sometimes flung grenades into Allied trucks...
...African Youth, a sleek, Congo-inspired head of a wide-eyed Negro child (see cut) by Sculptor William Artis, now an Army sergeant...
Actress Taylor plays a middleaged, down-at-heel former Southern belle, long ago deserted by her husband, and living with her feckless dreamer of a son (Eddie Dowling) and shy, scared, crippled daughter (Julie Haydon) in a St. Louis alley. Nagging, grandiloquizing about her mint-julepy, porticoed youth, absurd in her foolishness, pathetic in her pretensions, she wants passionately to get her daughter married, demands endlessly that her son bring "gentlemen callers" to the house. At length he brings one-a gum-chewing extrovert who, though touched by the girl's plight, counts the minutes till he can escape...
What's all this business about youth movements? Just an excuse for going out at night and getting into trouble, implied sharp-eyed, energetic Helen Sheldon, longtime headmistress of Britain's Luton High School. Citing complaints from parents that their daughters are being led astray, Headmistress Sheldon last week plumped for a 7:30 winter curfew for girls under 15. "It is not the movements that are at fault generally," said she, "but the fact that no discretion is shown in choice, so that two or three things are undertaken at the same time. One activity and once...