Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...warning against granting free speech to him who would shout fire in a crowded theatre. The last time Smith spoke in Boston, his visit was followed by the beatings of young Jewish boys in Dorchester and several attacks on Negroes. To quote from the leaflet circulated by the Boston Youth Council: "We believe in free speech, but we will not permit the lecture platform to be used as a center for pogroms and lynchings." We tried long and hard to stop Smith through legalistic channels, but a telephone barrage and many personal visits failed to persuade Acting Mayor Hines...
...person of Walker's intelligence should think it possible in a Harvard publication to pin a label on his opponents and thereby dispense with the method, more customary in a University, of rationally discussing diverse viewpoints on the basis of their merits alone. Harry A. Mendelsohn Chairman, Harvard Youth for Democracy
...police were listening, too. Said Bill Zarat, the Police Department's Director of Youth: "I don't agree with those statements about police hounding the kids into a life of crime, but on the whole it's a good program." It was so good that Zarat was recording it, for use in training his policemen...
...Youth & Heckling. In the unpredictable and uproarious National League, the Dodgers were by no means as sure a thing as the Yankees (13½ games ahead) were in the American League. But for a team that had seemed inexperienced and inept in spring training, they were playing heads-up ball. Every regular in the line-up except leadoff man Eddie Stanky was batting over .285. Johnny Jorgensen at third base and Jackie Robinson at first are two of the National League's rookies-of-the-year. Rookie Harry Taylor and 21-year-old Ralph Branca are among the league...
...matting of symbolism (even the choice of tea cakes, the dropping of a cup, becomes symbolic), readers may extract many meanings or none. Guesses British Critic Cyril Connolly, editor of highbrow Horizon: "And what are these figures, but expressions of a deeper truth, of cycles of spring and winter, youth and age, death and rebirth, of the Mother who must become our enemy if we are to grow...