Word: youths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Paradoxically, Mitterrand comes from a conservative Roman Catholic background, and concedes that "my socialism did not come easily." One of eight children of a railway worker from the southwestern province of Charente, Mitterrand says that in his youth "we talked about Communists as if they were men from Mars." When reproached for his "reactionary past," he replies: "I deem it more honorable to have evolved from right to left than vice versa." In spite of his impoverished beginnings, Mitterrand has gathered degrees in law and political science...
...which they were committed was losing credibility as an effective force. Many of the "veteran" student protestors who marched in the last demonstration did so with a nagging sense of responsibility and of nostalgia; they must now explore other means of change. Both the antiwar movement and the youth movement are in a state of limbo, looking for more productive areas of commitment...
Pirandello only makes things worse by trying to link this theme to the element of time. Which has greater reality, the eleventh century or the twentieth? Youth or age? Such questions try to squeeze profundity out of mere ambiguity. I doubt that even Pirandello knows where he intends them to lead. The play itself is not always strong enough to bear up under the load of philosophical significance, especially when the philosophy seems inconsistent or even meaningless...
...that they will not be punished for their honesty and candor. And--if the city really cares about kids like Larry Largey and Kevin Harris and the kids who hang out on Cambridge streetcorners--it is also up to Corcoran to reassess the city's present commitment to its youth. Corcoran must take the initiative to set up a CYRB board of directors that is truly representative of the community; a board of directors that has the power to hire and fire the Bureau's director; a board that can truly participate in the Bureau's decision-making process
...core staff. But when I checked with members of the agency to see if they had received their copy, which was mailed to them in care of the Bureau, a few said that they had not. Little did Cambridge know that when it hired a director for its youth Resources Bureau it may also have hired a postmaster...