Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...analysis of the President's boyhood, youth, political beginnings makes all previous biography of the President seem pedestrian. His passage on the effect of poliomyelitis on Mr. Roosevelt-that it made him "one of us"-is sinewy writing. dramatically effective and exceedingly plausible. Johnson's careful dissection of the Roosevelt Governorship of New York ("one of the most intricate and skillful games of cutthroat ever played in the United States") is also a masterly...
...enthusiasm might preserve drum talking for at least a few more years in the Stanleyville neighborhood. But even in Africa change is inevitable. Today, when Quarrelsome Smith wishes to refer with his drums to a white man, he politely beats: "White man spirit from the forest." In his youth he would have walloped: "Death on the river...
...judgment of speed is limited or nonexistent. Baffled by U.S. slang, most of them need informal instruction before they get the hang of it. Not long ago, a U.S. instructor in a plane with a 21-year-old British youngster advised him to "give her the gun." Said the youth: "But, sir, I have no gun. In England we are not allowed to carry them." Despite this unfamiliarity with the American language, some of the boys at Southern camps wind up with thick Southern accents, go hog-wild over orange juice, ice cream, corn pone...
...underprivileged, Congress should realize that wars are won at the supper table and in the dentist's and doctor's office, as well as on the drill fields of Devens. Using the CCC as framework, a series of semi-military camps could be set up to strengthen American youth both for battle and for peace. Anyone rejected for remedial defects should be at once subject to this physical reconditioning. No nations can hope to be strong with half its young men growing up as weaklings-to do something about this is only common humanity and common sense...
America's college youth is old enough and mature enough to decide what course it wants to follow in the present conflict. It may back the President's foreign policy, or it may not. But the Administration is not going to get the support of the bulk of this country's university students if it insists on filling them with some pre-determined notions as a part of their curriculum...