Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...interior, away from the Japanese. But while Chen encouraged practical subjects (a country at war needs engineers), he cut down on history, economics and politics. His advice to students: study-quietly and make no trouble. Extracurricular activities disappeared, except for Chiang's San Min Chu I Youth Group, a movement for training the young in hsiao and cheng, and in such un-Chinese pastimes as swimming. The Education Ministry started a bureau to "guide the thoughts and control the actions" of students, abroad as well as at home. When criticized for using "thought police," Chen made a distinctly totalitarian...
...paraded to Parliament in a driving, cold rain, waving soggy placards: "Candy is dandy, but eight cents ain't handy," and "We'll eat worms before we eat eight-cent chocolate bars." In Toronto and Montreal, demonstrations got tangled with the Communist-inclined National Federation of Labor Youth, which tried to take over. Dominion retailers were trapped between high wholesale prices and higher juvenile tempers...
...predecessors ... is to emulate their courage." Instead he finds universities devoted to the study of "existing knowledge," a structure "supported by the orthodox literature, by orthodox expositions of theory, by orthodox speculation, and by orthodox experiments disclosing orthodox novelty." He deplores the educational anxiety to "secure youth and its teachers from revelation [because it] is dangerous for youth and confusing to teachers." As a Harvard professor, the story goes, he horrified his assistant by marking the exam papers himself, dispensing A's for courageous originality, E's for orthodox parroting...
...clergymen per 100,000 citizens. Today the ratio has fallen to approximately 104. Ministers' salaries average less than $2,000 (much less in rural areas), for which the average congregation gets two Sunday sermons, an adult Sunday-school class, personal consultation, active leadership in civic organizations and youth groups...
Author Gilbert Keith Chesterton passionately accepted the orthodoxy that Kierkegaard scorned. A devout member of the Church of England from his youth, at the age of 48 he became a Roman Catholic. But though he accepted and stoutly defended every word of Roman Catholic dogma, he denounced the economic orthodoxy of modern capitalism...