Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...immediate concern is the welfare of 331,500,000 followers. The layman has seen it bend to temporary expediency. But, as in its disagreement with Nazi Germany over the meaning of the 1933 Concordat, the Vatican has never been known to surrender rights it considers basic: to educate the youth, guide the family, govern the bishops...
...special arrangement of 'Fair Harvard.' ... I had come all the way from Japan to attend, and the inspiration . . . can never fade. . . . The last verse, with the Symphony Orchestra and the Tercentenary Chorus . . . rang out like an exultant march, symbolizing the irresistible and inevitable triumph of American youth crashing through all obstacles to victory...
...American male, says Cohn, really dislikes women because 1) he was dominated by them in childhood and early youth, 2) "he vaguely suspects that they regard men as suckers," 3 ) he resents their stepping off their pedestals and competing with him in the vulgar world of offices and cocktail bars. Emotionally adolescent, eager to be mothered by his wife, the husband's place in the family is often that of an elder son. This status is encouraged by the women's press. "When a man weeps at the movies," drools the Ladies' Home Journal, "it means...
...blood of American youth to be shed for the ideals of Jefferson, Lincoln, and Wilson or for those of the British Tories, the American steel tycoon, Mr. Myron Taylor, and the Fascisl bishops of Detroit and Brooklyn...
...LIGHTS AROUND THE SHORE-Jerome Weldman-Simon & Schuster ($2.50). Youthful, attractive Aunt Fini had immigrated to New York from Hungary, had worked industriously for six years, hoarding her money, confiding no secrets. When she went back to Europe in the summer of 1939 she was supposed to be going to see her old parents. But Peter, the 15-year-old American nephew who accompanied her, was bewildered by her brusque, preoccupied behavior, soon found there was a man in the story, and learned enough of life to leave adolescence behind him forever. Touching as a study of a growing youth...