Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expects to make no money on its prestigious tour, but last fortnight, within six hours after ticket sales began, all the concerts were sold out. To one U. S. maestro, this was not unmixed good news. Platinum-mopped Leopold Stokowski began raising an "All American Youth Orchestra" last winter, planned also to make a South American tour-for good will. Since last spring, Stokowski has professed to be undaunted by Toscanini's rival junket, has apparently not been bothered by the prospect that South Americans, always sensitive to any sort of patronizing from the North, might be averse...
Last week, chins up, the Stokowski outfit insisted that its South American tour would begin in mid-July. Busy preparing for the trip, Mr. Stokowski was up to his waist in eager musical youngsters. With the cooperation of the National Youth Administration, Stokowski has held auditions in a dozen cities, attracting youths from surrounding States. Some 10,000 boys and girls, aged 16 to 25, applied for jobs in the 109-piece orchestra. The 500 who survived preliminary weedings played before Stokowski, who judged them for personality, individuality, docility under a conductor. Stokowski would like to have every State represented...
Judging by the college exchange papers coming to the Crimson, American youth is, by a great majority, opposed to U. S. participation in the present war. It is no secret how that came about. We learned it from our teachers. They taught us the folly of 1917-18, and made us determined that it should never happen again. Now we are trying to put into practice what they taught. It isn't an easy job, and we need all the help we can get. The natural place to look for it is among those same men who taught...
...innocent in the eyes of the law is in no essential way different from the political purges of Italy, Germany, and Russia. Compulsory military training is completely against the American ideal of personal freedom, and leads directly to that choking of individuality which has told so heavily upon the youth of the totalitarian states. And the everyman-a-policeman attitude, strongly encouraged by the F. B. I., that resulted in the unfortunate Grand Rapids incident bears a startling and frightening resemblance to the Gestapo-inspired reign of terror in Germany...
...warning that this nation "is spawning a large number of a new kind of American, a youth who is afraid to fight," was given by Com. Robert C. Lee, executive vice-president of the Moore-McCormack lines . . . at the Chamber of Commerce last night. "If this number is allowed to increase," he said, "our doom is sealed. Unless the legions of America are ever eager and willing to fight for freedom and the Church of God then we are lost. I believe we still possess the elements of greatness, but the sooner we get into this fight, which is inevitably...