Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Illya) Culbertson. Born Rumania 1891 of a Cossack mother and a Scotch-Pennsylvanian mining engineer. Born partially covered with a caul, was marked from early childhood as a man of luck and destiny. Lived most of youth in Russia...
...this is not to say that here no interest in the great outdoors glimmers through the clear Cambridge air. No wallflowers for undergraduate attentions are the Youth Hostels; church groups and clubs lure students with promises of hikes. Mountaineers and skiers, although addicted to sports requiring more than the usual skill and agility, have sold themselves with great success. Clearly potentialities are great...
...this Freudian potpourri a father in love with snails, and scores of definitely unattractive adolescents in heavy shoes and long dresses showing figures at their worst, and you have "sweet sixteen, youth smiling through its tears"--while the onlooker bites his fingernails in depressed frustration...
...this reason the Harvard Anti-War Committee finds itself called on to expose the pseudo-peace stand of the A.S.U., and it calls all sincere members of the student anti-war movement to its own banner, the banner of the third camp of youth and labor...
...longer herald a renaissance; it is too late now. Once, when I had the power to do much and the desire to do more, mediocrity everywhere was too strong. I was the giant with the feet of clay-the lot of many youths. But now, my small, small friend, look about you: there has appeared, even within your field of vision, a figure here and a figure there, a shining crest, lavish with its bounty, geniuses beneath the open sky-you and I should bid them welcome. I walk in the evening of life and, trembling, recognize myself in them...