Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aubrey Willis Williams, National Youth Administrator, veteran defender of boondoggling, changed his tune about NYA. Said he: "Sewing rooms, arts & crafts, music, recreation projects, school lunches . . . have got to go. . . . We must get rid of every soft spot that smells." He asked his aides to get "very, very tough...
Bishop Berggrav's resignation last week was inspired by a new decree, that all children between ten and 18 must join the Nazi youth organization. He called this order a menace to the influence of the home and the church on youth. Norway's teachers agreed, and when they were further required to join a Nazi union, they went out on strike and closed every Norwegian school...
...subject may also be leveled at "Doncha Wanna Dig, Chillun" by Dartmouth's Edward Rasmussen. John Barnes' "But the Bullets Were Real" is a more original and evocative attempt. As a study of a sensitive young couple faced with the draft the tale deals with an important youth problem, while its experiment in form, though not always properly controlled, fits it for praise too often lavished on better balanced non-entities...
...disperse information on what youth can do in the war program, a conference of New England colleges is planned for March 15. The committee will also conduct an investigation of what students in the Houses can do toward conservation of materials needed for the war effort...
Many movies ago, we were duly convinced that the American schoolmarm is a figure of heroic proportions. It is she, we found, who tirelessly molds our youth and starts it on the familiar path from red-brick school to White House. Always she sacrifices; always she loses her lover; always she is honored at the final fade...