Word: youths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...find out how much basis there is for "the current impression that the present generation of youth has no inhibitions in relation to word use as well as otherwise," Professor Edwin R. Hunter (head of the English department) and Student Bernice E. Gaines examined the freshman class, seniors and the faculty in Maryville College, a small co-educational institution in east Tennessee. They chose 62 words that once were or still are widely considered offensive, asked the students and teachers to indicate whether they used the words: 1) as freely as cat or dog, 2) with a feeling of being...
...youth dreamy Charles distinguished himself only by his fibs, his cribbing in school (where he got the nickname "Gas"), his passion for hunting, his aimless wandering from university to university in search of a profession. A passive resister rather than a rebel, always intimidated by his big, bumbling father, he decided at last on a Church career. Natural history was merely a desultory hobby that accidentally got him an appointment as naturalist on the five-year voyage of the Beagle. And although he was no more interested in the Church than he had been in his other blind alleys...
...further determined to have no connection with Hart's National Conservative Youth Assembly in New York because of "uncertainty and possible public statements." Contrary to club policy, Hart opposed the appointment of Granville Hicks as extra-curricular counselor in American History...
...attitude of the advisce toward his new environment. With these standards raised, there lingers the question of whom to select. Certainly not those full professors who are unable to give at least three hours a week to the task, or who are too far apart in sympathy from Yardling youth; not fresh-from-college graduate students, but preferably men who fit in somewhere between the extremes...
...picture worth seeing if only as an anthology of all that the French screen has to offer. Episodic, rather in the manner of "If I Had A Million," the picture takes a world-weary blonde (Mlle. Bell) in search of ten boys she had known in her youth. She had gone to her first ball, a card dance, when she was sixteen, and each of her partners with true Gallic gallantry had told her they loved her. Five she finds alive, a priest, a shyster, a hairdresser, an epileptic, and the mayor of a sunny little town in the Midi...