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...some, it seems that today's youth is really the lost generation. It does not believe that the wrecking of the '205 made sense, and even if it did, the '205 did not leave many values to wreck. Present-day youth has no living heroes and few villains. Said a professor of sociology: "We spend all our time debunking. We have no heroes, so how can you expect the young people to have any? We destroy them all. We've even done it in the sports world. Kids today feel they have...
Mexicans understood too. Interior Minister Ruiz Cortínez had been nominated by the official party convention as the government's candidate to succeed President Miguel Alemán. In present-day Mexico, that assures election. Barring death or accident, Adolfo Ruiz Cortínez will...
...There are two ultimate dangers besetting present-day preoccupation with the problem of human rights. The first is ... the danger of materialism. Who is not clamoring today for his economic rights, for what is called a decent standard of living? . . . There is a deadly danger that in our enthusiasm for economic and social justice we forget that man cannot live by bread alone...
...like Cohane (not an Old Blue) and the result is an unexpectedly fascinating account of how Yale and her Big Three rivals conceived the monster that today is college football then retreated themselves to the palsied field of amateur football, halting only to buy an occasional Big-Time team. Present-day Stadium diehards might also be pleased to learn that from 1938 to 1941 the hapless Yalies won 7 and lost 24 games and still survived. Local readers will also find new background and stories of Crimson great like Percy Haughton who brought Harvard into the national spotlight, and walloped...
Frye describes present-day problems in Iran in the book, "The United States and Turkey and Iran," just published by the University Press. Co-author with Frye is Lewis V. Thomas, Assistant Professor of Turkish Language and History at Princeton...