Word: youthfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plan the book, though. For 15 years, she kept a notebook on every production, doubting her words would ever be published. The first draft of The Bright Lights emerged over a four-month period of continuous work. Seldes bubbles with enthusiasm for her editor, Jonathan Galassi--"his very youth was an asset"--and for the contributions of an editor in general. In contrast to the relationship between an actor and a director, an editor is "like another self, another set of eyes"; "no interference"impedes his rapport with the writer. An actor and his director, on the other hand...
Community work is nothing new to Howard, who organized hunger walks in high school and directed Harvard's big sister program for needy Cambridge youth...
...neglected to stress the cult of machismo as one of the biggest drawbacks impeding the advancement of our people. Its evil locks men into self-styled pride, exploits and subjugates women and lures youth into the self-destructive violence of gangs. Eradicate machismo from latino culture and la raza will flourish as never before; mujeres and hombres alike will then move forward in equality...
...full volume: "Present it in a pitiful light. Three combat-scarred veterans, who fought their way from Omaha Beach to- what was the name of the town we fought our way to?" Or: "What sort of poetry do you write?" "Lyric, elegiac, and athletic In praise of youth, death, and anarchy. Very good for tearing...
...SUBMERGENCE of identity, its apparent destruction, and its final reassertion will remain, for most of us, abstract concepts to mull over at our will and convenience. As we flounder from crisis to crisis during our youth, many of us imagine ourselves trapped by the self-images we have built up; we then seek physical escape, metamorphosis, new friends and intimates--anything, in short, that promises freedom from this internalized jail cell. But we often lose sight of one fundamental truth behind this search for personal redefinition--that it is a process we enter into on a voluntary basis, often...