Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...instinctive respect for all living creatures seemed strange to his schoolmates, and often it made him sad. ("Youth's unqualified joie de vivre" he once wrote, "I never really knew.") Twice Albert went fishing, but "the treatment of the worms . . . and the wrenching of the mouths of the fishes" were too much for him. Each night, after his prayers with his mother, he added a secret one of his own: "O Heavenly Father, protect and bless all things that have breath, guard them from all evil, and let them sleep in peace...
...already begun lessons with the famed French organist, Charles Marie Widor. But Schweitzer's thoughtful happiness also carried with it some pain. "It became steadily clearer to me," he has written, "that I had not the inward right to take as a matter of course my happy youth, my good health, and my power of work. Out of the depths of my feeling of happiness there grew up gradually within me an understanding . . . that . . . whosoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others...
...Better Go Home." When the archbishop finished his sermon, he moved to the altar for prayers. He leaned heavily on his staff, tapping it audibly on the flagstones while two acolytes helped to support him. First he prayed for the youth of Czechoslovakia, that they should not be misled. He prayed for those Catholics who are wavering in faith, that they might be strengthened and not "turned aside by lies and distorted reports." Last he prayed for the "Judases who are betraying their priestly calling, who are allowing themselves to be tempted by short-term successes and material benefits...
...When I wandered up, a crowd encircled me. One bespectacled youth poked a pugnacious finger in my collar and said: 'Will you tell your American friends that we reject the plans of murderer Truman and American imperialists to start another war so they can use cheap soldiers of India to crush Soviet democracy?' Breathlessly he spun out the usual cliches, and wound up: 'Nehru is a Fascist reactionary who smokes cigarettes with Churchill and offers British warmongers the sweet mangoes and sweet tongues of India...
...very word "commencement" is supposed to symbolize the emergence of youth from its educational incubator into the great and stimulating battle of life, and as such it is generally regarded as a joyous occasion. Every June countless orators use graduation ceremonies to acclaim endlessly the ever widening vistas of creative opportunity that stretch before their young audiences. In short, commencement time is ruthlessly exploited to revive and expand the American dream...