Word: youths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Handlin, 62, social historian who, with her husband Oscar, a professor of history at Harvard, was coauthor of six books on American civilization; of cancer; in Cambridge, Mass. The Handlins in The Dimensions of Liberty (1961) explored the idea of freedom as defined in the U.S. In Facing Life: Youth and the Family in American History (1971), they traced the patterns of relationships within the American family, spanning 300 years, and concluded that the continually advancing age at which young people leave home has unfortunate consequences for everyone involved...
...this second model that Kearns emulates. She opens with crucial stories about Johnson's youth on the Pedernales and then subtly juxtaposes the most important impressions with his later actions as a means to better understand his mode of decision-making. Sometimes it works well, as in explaining how he hoped to obtain the steady love he lacked as a child through political conquests. But far more often this type of analysis falls flat. The psychobiographical passages seem like attempts to explain an action in the future by citing any random action that occurred in the past. Programs...
...contribution to the science of education made his project a success. But Itard considered his work with Victor a total failure, preferring to be remembered for his invention of a sign language for the deaf. Bringing the wild child back into society had been the dream of Itard's youth, and one cannot help thinking that he would have spurned all this praise...
FROM THE BEGINNING, the meeting of Europe and America was colored by illusions. Columbus retreated from the Orinoco delta because he thought he had found the Earthly Paradise; Coronado chased across the deserts in search of seven golden cities; Ponce de Leon died in pursuit of the Fountain of Youth. The Indians were just as perplexed, believing at first that the conquistadors on horseback were centaurs, and later that these red-bearded, pale-skinned men were gods returning to fulfill an apocalyptic prophecy...
...island, Marlon leading the way. From the back, he looked like a young heavyweight boxer: broad shoulders, thick, sinewy arms and rock-hard legs. The loping stride is strong. Only the white hair, cut short, betrayed his age. Suddenly Brando turned toward me and the illusion of youth vanished. That famous face with its jutting forehead and broken nose is a face that has seen and experienced everything. His wet shirt hugged a fat belly. "Poachers," Brando whispered, looking at two young Polynesian boys lying on the sand. They smiled nervously. Brando studied them hard for a moment and slowly...