Word: youthfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wehrmacht and served with an antiaircraft unit that fought on both the Eastern and Western fronts. After being commissioned a first lieutenant, he was captured at the Battle of the Bulge and held as a prisoner of war for six months in Belgium. Earlier, he had joined the Hitler Youth, as did every other boy in his school. His submissive stance is said to have privately troubled Schmidt in later years. Returning after the war to the devastation of Hamburg, he abandoned architecture to study political economy because, as a friend recalls, "considering the scope of the task of reconstruction...
...Pope rode into Warsaw aboard an open, bus-type van, hundreds of thousands of Poles cheered and threw bright flowers in his path. One youth was applauded when he held up a placard: NATION WITH THE CHURCH AND CHURCH WITH THE NATION. At the historic St. John's Cathedral, the congregation broke through ropes and mobbed the Pontiff. The day's climax was an open-air Mass for up to 500,000 people at downtown Victory Square. When John Paul declared, "Without Christ it is impossible to understand the history of Poland," the crowd burst into applause that...
Albert E. Rees, honorary research associate in Economics, on leave for the year from Princeton, says he doesn't expect immediate results' from his studies of youth unemployment. Still, he says he has found that whether a teenager is employed bears no relation to his parents' employment status, but rather it seems to correspond to whether his brothers and sisters have jobs...
...callow youth of today, however, who has never thrilled to a boogie base line or bounced to the irresistible beat, Gordon's musical archaeology is welcome. A living fossil, he single-handedly embodies a way of life and--more important by far--an attitude to living which has all but died out today...
...consider sport a metaphor for life is sad. To think of sport as life itself is tragic. None succumb to this delusion more readily than ghetto youth, for whom athletics is both a means of escape and an opportunity for approval. And none have described the process better than Pat Jordan. His own decline as a professional pitcher was recollected in the poignant autobiography A False Spring. Four years ater, he turns from the diamond to the court to watch basketball players yield to the pressures of ambition, and to the damning testimony of their skills...