Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stearns wove himself another. He began to re-examine the country he had forsaken. His America: A Reappraisal, which critics found more penitent than profound, was followed by a new symposium America Now, more thoughtful and more hopeful than the indictment of U.S. civilization Stearns had edited in his youth. As a symbol of the "exile" period in American literature, Stearns had only literary interest. But the pattern of denial and affirmation that he wove into his life-the rejection of American values and then a sober re-examination of them-was part of the social pattern of his time...
...sweep swiftly across the hillsides, casing them in pale blues. Villages hang precariously, hacked out of pure stone. In such surroundings, only local power and force can hold sway; only the number of rifles a tribe can muster means anything. It is no wonder that Suleiman, as a slim youth tending his master's flocks, dreamed godlike visions in these hills. This dream and the native understanding that only power counts is what set him on his vicious trail of plunder, loot and robbery, brought him dubious fame and control of 18 villages-one for each wife-and wealth...
...nothing ever comes of it. Either the Neva is frozen, or I meet somebody I know on the way and so am forced to put it off." Problem in Selection. Sonya Shostakovich's maternal solicitude for Mitya, who was a frail youth afflicted with tuber ulosis, bordered on mania. "Suppose the ceiling of our house fell in," she would brood. "Whom should one save? Of course Mitya-for this would be the duty of everyone to society-for the sake of art." Sonya even insisted on dragging her friends and relatives into her all-absorbing responsibilities. "If both Mitya...
...sire made him a harness immortal. Ninety-five per cent of top trotters today trace their blood to him through at least one line. Standard breds, from Hambletonian down, are still the only purely U.S. contribution to the sporting horse, and to a sport where age as well as youth is served...
...last week news came from Moscow that Russian youth in all primary and secondary grades will be segregated by sexes. Russian youth will still dance to gether, still mix in theatricals, literary discussions, sports. But beginning with the coming school year, education will be different for boys & girls above the age of eight. New York Timesman Alexander Werth (Moscow War Diary) wirelessed the explanation of one Soviet school director...