Word: youths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...move away from the radical left-represented by her daughter Sunethra, who is coordinating secretary to the Prime Minister, her husband Kumar and sister Chandrika-and in the direction of her more conservative son Anura, 27, who has recently become chief organizer of the party's powerful Youth League. The shift to the right is seen as part of an emergency effort to shore up the country's failing economy-and the Prime Minister's falling popularity...
SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH...
...they are, then Jimmy Carter, in his projected image as rock-music fan and friend of youth, civil rights advocate and friend of blacks, down-home farmboy and friend of city folks, deep-dyed populist and friend of everybody but big business, may be closer to the New South Zeitgeist than his less reconciliatory Democratic opponent George Wallace. Certainly, a strong showing by Carter in the states Wallace has dominated for a decade would seriously undercut the Alabama governor's paraplegic presidential bid. And obviously, a strong regional showing is a must for Carter, who must prove that...
...narrowest ski--the racing ski--is closer to a pair of ice skates than to the downhill skis of your youth. A good deal of work for your ankles, these skis are recommended for people with Norwegian (preferably Swedish) last names who foresee skiing only on packed and grooved racing tracks...
Waugh's youth was by no means blighted. His family was congenial-his father Arthur ran a small but prestigious publishing house-and lived comfortably in a London suburb, amid books and talk of books. The adolescent Evelyn saw Oxford as a kind of enchanted kingdom. For a time he became one of its leading fauns, an aesthete shuttling between Hamletic conversation and Falstaffian drinking. After graduation, Waugh had a desultory try at being an artist. Failing at that, he became a teacher at third-rate boarding schools. He began a book, informing the curious that he was writing...