Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feel it clearly," wrote Maria, "that we, the youth, are a sorely tried, but also a steeled youth and as hard as iron, destined to fight on for the ideal of our indispensable Führer. When everybody deserts the Leader, he will be able to depend on his real youth. They will never betray...
Tokyo radio reported a more violent expression of opinion. Forty-three years ago the grateful Japanese erected a stone monument, near Yokohama, to Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry, who opened up Japan to western trade and influence. Last fortnight members of the Imperial Rule Assistance Youth Corps, "amidst yo-heave-ho shouts," tore it down. Replacing the Perry Monument is a wooden monolith with inscriptions "to stimulate the spirit to defend the fatherland...
...Sergeant Petry knew what he was fighting for-and against. Six years ago, before his family escaped to America, he had been a German, citizen, a member of the Hitler Youth. When an American advance swept through the orchard, the sergeant and his men were still there, still fighting...
...Villa-Lobos legend (TIME, Jan. 29, 1940, et seq.) goes back to his youth, when he picked up a living playing in Brazilian cafes and theaters. When he be came known as a composer, he voiced a characteristic self-tribute: "Better bad of mine than good of others." Sent to France in 1922 on a Brazilian Government scholarship, he told his Paris teachers: "I didn't come to study with you; I came to show you what I've done...
...Novelist Aldous Huxley, ultra-sophisticate of the 1920s, studied privately with the swami. His latest novel, Time Must Have a Stop, bears the marks of his study. Erudite Philosopher Gerald Heard (Pain, Sex and Time; The Ascent of Humanity), son of an Anglican churchman and a professed agnostic since youth, was another private pupil. Like slick Manhattan Dramatist John van Druten, (Voice of the Turtle, I Remember Mama), both contribute to the society's magazine Vedanta and the West, now co-edited by Isherwood. Larry, the dissatisfied young hero of Somerset Maugham's current best-selling novel...