Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they contribute is immeasurable and yet they have all too often remained in oblivion while every schoolboy is taught history in terms of battles and their leaders, regarding their exploits as the ultimate in human achievement. A surer road to peace for the future would be the encouragement of youth's devotion to the more constructive leadership of the healers, the builders and the artists who benefit all humanity lastingly. HARRIETT WATTS PODBOY York...
George Ade watched the U.S. forget Artemus Ward and Josh Billings, the great humorists of his youth, and knew that one generation's wit is another generation's banality. He saw his own slang ("the cold grey dawn of the morning after"; "I felt like thirty cents") become shopworn clichés. And he came to believe that the only funny thing he ever wrote...
...serious plays had good notices to overcome. The season produced one provocative play, Lillian Hellman's The Searching Wind, one lively stage pamphlet, Edward Chodorov's Decision. War plays, to make any dent at all, had to abandon straight drama, become exultant paeans to martial youth like Winged Victory, comedies of adventure like Jacobowsky and the Colonel. But the season's only two revivals of the classics came through handsomely: Othello set an alltime Broadway record for Shakespeare, The Cherry Orchard had its longest Broadway...
...M.G.M.) should please everybody. Cinemaddicts who loathe Andy Hardy and his stereotypical small town family can loathe them more than ever. Cinemaddicts to whom the Hardys are like memories of their youth can continue to cherish them...
...healthy as one that has had to wait longer; 2) the longer the interval between births, the more likelihood of a mother's suffering from a type of pregnancy poisoning associated with high blood pressure. Reason: the shorter interval enables mothers to have more children during youth, the best child-bearing time...