Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard men's track team began a youth movement this year, but it also enjoyed some success along...
...Harvard women's volleyball team finally rediscovered its fountain of youth this weekend, but that well of energy unfortunately ran dry too soon...
...conceit of inserting his fictional alter ego into some parts of Reagan's life story begins in the very first chapter, in which Morris recounts his (apparently real) agony over whether to accept the role as the official presidential biographer. He alludes, confusingly, to having seen Reagan as a youth, and then tells the apparently true story of spending an evening with the Reagans at the White House...
...This, of course, is the central Reagan conundrum that many biographers have tried to answer. As he seeks to answer it, Morris traces the life of the future, nearly godlike President through the eyes of the fictional Morris. There is an encounter on the football field: "The square-cut youth and I briefly exchanged glances... A million miles away a factory siren wailed. His purposeful body moved on, exuding liniment. I dropped the candy wrapper I had been holding--and as I reached for it, his wet sleeve brushed my hand...
Zackheim's case is intriguing if not entirely convincing. A feminist activist in the 1960s and early '70s, she says she decided to pursue the book when she discovered that Einstein, a great icon of her youth in Compton, Calif., had had a child he might have forsaken. "It fascinated me from a psychological point of view," she says. "How did his daughter feel about being abandoned, especially by somebody who was so important to the culture...