Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dubious success of our own education seems to me to call for great humility. . . . That raises the question of the extent to which mass political behavior is influenced by education. We have to ask ourselves how Germans became Nazis in the first place. The millions of youth who pushed Hitler to power were not taught Hitlerism in their schools and universities. . . . The fact is that what students were taught in their schools did not conform to the reality which they saw in life. . . . Democracy failed to provide . . . a satisfactory social and economic existence. . . . Hitler merely canalized the almost universal discontent...
Bonner, who lived in Thayer Hall while at Harvard, enlisted in the Army in June of last year. Cairo headquarters of the American Field Service advised that the youth was responding to medical treatment...
Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt last week finally came right out and told youthful U.S. radicals that they could go too far-in fact, that some of them had. To a Manhattan conference of the U.S. Student Assembly (one of the few remaining signs of an intercollegiate youth movement-most youth is now organized in U.S. uniforms), the First Lady declared...
...dinner. Laid in 1916, it describes how a young bride for whom childbearing would be dangerous (Geraldine Fitzgerald) dreams the life of her unborn son (Gregroy Peck) all the way to 1942. It is a pretty hackneyed life most of the way - a Tarkington childhood, a Scott Fitzgerald youth, a John Dos Passos coming-of-age ; and it halts on the tragic threshold of war. But the young bride decides to have a child nevertheless: whatever the risks for her and the penalties for him, life must...
...growth of "extracurricular activities" in many of our high schools has reached the point where the tail has swallowed the head. Sports, clubs, dances, teas, "pep" sessions, programs, youth movements and every conceivable kind of extracurricular activity . . . now [take] three-fourths of the time and energy of pupils and teachers . . . before they can even begin to think of study and teaching...