Word: youthfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Isabel is self-aware enough to draw parallels between her father's ideal and her own anachronistic choice to become a "saint" by sacrificing her youth to the care of a cripple. She questions the purity of her motives--makes her saintliness appear sinful and her vices sacremental. In retrospect she sees her decision to lose her virginity, for instance, as nothing but an attempt to shock her father into attention. Incestuous lovehate fro him made her sleep with his (only) disciple; perhaps she even intended to trigger her father's heart attack a few months later...
...Head of the Charles gives boats from colleges, clubs and high schools a chance to compete in one regatta. Youth and veteran events provide age-group competition--some high school oarsmen are as young as 14 or 15, while scullers in their 70s compete in the veteran race...
...result of the staggered start is something on the order of a demolition derby, especially in the novice and youth events, where coxswains are less experienced. As the shells jockey for position on the turns, near collisions are the rule--rarely is a cox willing to cede the right-of-way if he thinks he can keep his place...
...Veterans Singles (time handicapped)10:00 2. Women's fours with cox 10:25 3. Championship double sculls 10:50 4. Lightweight eights 11:10 5. Championship fours with cox 11:30 6. Novice singles 11:45 7. Mixed eights 12:10 8. Women's singles 12:25 9. Youth eights 12:55 10. Midweight singles 1:10 11. Championship pairs without cox 1:35 12. Lightweight singles 1:55 13. Club eights 2:20 14. Master singles 2:35 15. Lightweight fours with cox 3:00 16. Women's eights 3:20 17. Championship singles 3:35 18. Championship...
Hill replied no and asked the assailant to leave. The youth threw a flashlight at Hill, hitting him in the face. The youth continued his assault picking up a standing ashtray and hurling it in the direction of the theater employee's head...