Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Attacking the conditions in the R.O.T.C., the Chairman of the Civil Liberties Committee of the Harvard Student Union yesterday sent a letter to the C.I.O., A. F. of L., American Youth Congress, American Student Union National Office, and Senator Robert M. LaFollette...
...many others besides the Trautweins: of Wiesener, a man of talent sold out to the Nazis, who salves what conscience he has in writing a brilliant, corrupt biography of Beaumarchais, and a secret journal; of Raoul his son, a bright, sensitive young crook, who tries leading a French-fascist Youth Movement, writes a scalding novel about his father; of Elli, a "helpless" and much-helped refugee who, flufily shouldering her betters out of the way, manages to make out very nicely...
...have a strong case as far as the morals phase of the controversy goes. He has cited a section of the General Laws of Massachusetts as his authority for asking cancellation of Russell's appointment. This section demands that Harvard College endeavor to "impress on the minds . . . of the youth permitted in its care . . . the principles of chastity and those other virtues which are the ornament of human society...
Tradition has always pictured Verdi as a sunny oldster dandling children on his knee. In "The Life of Giuseppe Verdi", a script-writer's florid fancy and an actor's indecisive acting are diligently at work portraying bearish youth mellowing into crochety old age. Inconclusive in its characterization, the picture meanders shapelessly through the minor crises in the composer's life, in a disjointed course that lacks both interest and conviction. A weak-kneed attempt to build up Verdi as a nationalist idol bogs down in conventional heroics. In a last desperate effort at unity, the director drags...
According to Sendak, his chance of gaining the nomination are at present very good, as the only opposition is because of his youth. He is twenty-two years...