Word: youths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...best of all possible worlds during his short life. His father, Henry Wilmot, was a royalist exiled to France during the Commonwealth, while his mother was the former wife to an important Parliamentary figure. Between the two, young John Wilmot was able to enjoy a relatively unscathed youth reading the classics, going to Oxford when he was only thirteen and graduating the following year with a Master of Arts. But whatever favors Rochester might have received because of his family's dual politics, his sharp wit and merciless opinions garnered him plenty of attention...
...Lewiston, Longley is the model of the self-made man, the kind of person who jogs a mile every morning, needs only three hours of sleep a night, and avows that Ayn Rand is his favorite author. A fervent believer in the virtues of hard work, Longley as a youth labored in a textile mill to support his widowed mother and five sisters and brothers. After graduating from Bowdoin College, he went on to build one of the biggest insurance agencies in the state...
...1960s--partly out of a desire to combat the authoritarian government of the prejunta Caramanlis. Whether it will regain its followers once more remains to be seen. A striking phenomenon in Greece these days (or in Athens, at least), is the extreme left's appeal to middle-class youth. And what is almost unbelievable is the older generation's tolerance of the left, in light of its paranoid attitude from after World War II until the junta's imposition. Now elder Greeks feel very hostile (literally paranoid) towards the far right...
Upon reaching the George Eliot entries, few readers will have cause to question the author's observation that "Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle...
...last night the Youth Organization for Black Unity sponsored a commemoration of Southern. The program consisted of two short films on black students at Harvard. A black Harvard alumnus spoke on his visit to Southern during the November 1972 protest. We at Harvard should think about what the black student movement at Southern means to all of us and our relationship to this university. And we should proclaim the week of November 11 through 16 as "Student Solidarity Week--Remember Southern...