Word: youthfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Apart from the weather, spring is a state of mind, one that expresses itself in rituals of celebration. The beach at Fort Lauderdale, Fla., for example, is once again a jungle of young bodies celebrating each other's youth and strewing the sands with beer cans. At New York's Radio City Music Hall, temporarily rescued from destruction by being designated a city landmark, the legendary Rockettes observed Easter by wearing bunny ears, and crowds lined up for what was announced as the last show in the 45-year-old art deco theater. In New Orleans, this...
...taught her that optimistic left-wing ideology could soothe the pain of voiceless poverty: "People sat down at the kitchen table to talk, Politics sat down with them, Ideas sat down with them, above all, History sat down with them." During her teens, she joined the Communist-affiliated Labor Youth League, but she recalls, "I had often been in a state of dismay as I felt the weight of simplistic socialist explanations pressing upon my growing inner life...
...deserted the Majority in 1974, '76 and '77 for the Socialists, returned to the Right to ensure its victory. They could not bring themselves to support a coalition of bitter enemies engaged in fierce mutual recriminations and incapable of agreeing on a platform. Even though the French youth from 18 to 21 voted for the first time, the Left did a shade worse than in the Mitterrand-Giscard duel of 1974. And so, the C.P. is back in the political ghetto...
...Wallop. It called for return of the canal to the U.S. if either country violated the new treaties. New York Democrat Patrick Moynihan angrily called the idea "inane" and "devoid of intellectual content." Said he: "We are reducing the Senate to a playground of juvenilia, a playpen of prepubescent youth." After colleagues objected to the unusual personal attack, Moynihan apologized...
...down, Poppy, sit down!" the youth cried...