Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Counter-Attack. "In strengthening our youth against the Nazi lie, we must make their faith glow in the truth which is that the essence of democracy is belief in the fatherhood of God, the brotherhood of man, and the dignity of the individual soul. . . . This we can do if, in addition to holding firmly to our Bill of Rights ... we formulate a Bill of Duties...
...cropped, 26-year-old Harlem musician named Dean Dixon was well on his way last week to doing what no Negro has ever done-conduct a first-rank symphony orchestra. Musician Dixon had already waved a crisp, confident baton over the New York City Symphony (see above), the National Youth Administration radio orchestra, and an amateur symphony of his own in Harlem. At a Town Hall recital, Conductor Dixon made more news. He directed a 38-piece white outfit which he had founded-the New York Chamber Orchestra-in concertos with a debutante pianist, Vivian Rivkin...
Much U.S. book publishing is conducted with all the good fellowship, petty rivalry and corporate inefficiency of a college literary club. To many a youth, publishing offers the pleasantest excuse for smoking a bulldog pipe, wearing tweeds, meeting authors, reading books. Result is an amount of dilettantism that would soon bankrupt any less leisurely form of U.S. business...
Jesse Ehlich '46 of Winthrop House and New York City has received notice from the All-American Youth Orchestra that he has been selected from 3,000 competing artists to play the cello under baton of Leopold Stokowski this summer...
...there are so many good-looking men here at Yale," said one of the feminine members of the West Orange, N.J. High Youth Hostelers. "I'll say, the cream of the crop," answered another. Led by a member of the German Department the Hostelers are bicycling their way through New England during the Easter Vacation.... "Gosh, did Franklin Roosevelt go to school here?". When politely, but firmly, told that FDR went to Harvard and that Harvard had no buildings comparable to Freshman Commons, the signed whisper came back, "But they have the reputation." -Yale News, April...