Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, in a condensed version, it was revived by the editors of Youth Today, a magazine digest for adolescents. Newly titled The War That Was to Come, it was attributed by the editors to "an English writer." The interesting question that it raised by implication: Were 1918's generation suckers for succumbing to their own propaganda...
Alone again, Authoress Sand considered Pianist Liszt as a successor to Musset and the doctor. Replied the cautious virtuoso: Only God deserves to be loved. In 1836 George Sand wrote in her diary: "Farewell, Eros! You idol of my youth! . . . The present and future are free for the service of humanity. . . ." She began to write proletarian novels in which heroines no longer deserted their husbands for love but for the revolution and the socialist teachings of Saint-Simon and Louis Blanc...
Dusk of Dawn is the autobiography of a Negro whose lifelong attempt has been to ease friction between U. S. whites and blacks. In William E. Burghardt Du Bois's youth the faith of the nation was Progress. The faith of his college, the Harvard University of 1890, was Science and Truth...
...committee proposed that high schools teach youth how to read, be good citizens, wives, husbands, keep their health, solve their personal and family problems. Above all, said the committee, U. S. youth needs to be taught how to work. "The ability to work steadily for eight hours," it observed, "is not a natural possession; it has to be acquired...
...Europe, but of a distinctly non-military type, would be advantageous in this country. If all young persons were mobilized to do service for the country for a reasonable period during adolescence, a long step would be taken in the direction of solving some of the most urgent youth problems of the present time...