Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seat his father had held since 1907. In the 1944 election he piled up a record majority from 3,000 miles away in Normandy-where he was a lieutenant colonel in Les Fusiliers Mont-Royal. He made his reputation as the super-efficient minister of social welfare and youth. He is a natty bon vivant who made a million on the stock market...
...Anton Preisinger, owner of the second largest hotel in town, who played the part in 1950 and was much praised for his combination of gentleness and physical endurance during 85 eight-hour performances in which he hangs for 30 minutes on the cross. Then the committee turned to youth. Gabriele Cropper, 1950's Magdalene, who had put off her marriage (though she is 34) because she thought she was in the running for the part of the Virgin Mary, burst into tears when the committee chose Irmi Dengg. a 21-year-old salesgirl. Anneliese Mayr, 20. landed the part...
Rodin Had 30. Moore is in the enviable position of being able now to refuse commissions as he pleases and to work only on what intrigues him. In recent years, he has found a new fascination in what he had scorned in his youth-the intricate drapery of classical Greece. Currently, he is occupied with three larger-than-life reliefs, first worked out in miniature and now being shaped in plaster in one of his two large studios set away from his house. For the routine modelmaking and preliminary shaping, he has two assistants, students who work for a year...
...fisherman, far out at sea, engaged in his biggest struggle. The same combination of events and commentary, held in exquisite balance, gives Shanti Andia the thrust of life itself at all its stages: the child's wonder at his discovery of sunlight on water, the youth's engagement in voyages, the old man's sad reverence for what is gone...
Professor Demos also approves of courses about religion, but he replies that students are not merely taught about democracy. "Don't we teach democracy and science in the sense of indoctrination? Certainly this is a valid point; American youth learn the democratic method through student government and the democratic hagiography in their history courses. Democracy, however, is an ideology almost universally approved in the United States, and its wide-spread acceptance leads many to overlook the fact that education about democracy has been replaced by indoctrination in democracy...