Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Youth Director, The Salvation Army...
...faces in the crowd at the conference were an interesting collection of veterans of popular movements and campus activists who will someday be veterans too, of trade unionists for Kennedy and members of the Spartacus Youth League thrown out of the hotel for running a literature table without permission. The Citizens Party was there. So was Public Interest Research Group, the People's Business Commission, the Coalition for a New Military and Foreign Policy, Rural America and the United States Student Association. The Crimson talked to many people at the conference. Below are interviews with two of them...
...cities throughout the country, Klan sympathizers have distributed leaflets to high school students asking: "Are you 'fed up to here' with black, chicano and [Oriental] criminals who break into lockers and steal your clothes and wallets?" The solution, according to the leaflet, is to join the Klan Youth Corps. At a K.K.K. summer camp in Jefferson County, Ala., robed counselors teach girls and boys ages ten to 18 the fundamentals of race supremacy and how to use guns. Near Decatur, Ala., a group of children, all outfitted in Klan T shirts, burned an old school bus last summer...
Though Remarque came to the plot early, his scenario is now familiar from too many other war movies: a group of boys go from school to training camp to the front lines, becoming men only to die. "You are our iron youth," their high school instructor (Donald Pleasence) tells them, with proper Germanic pride. "Iron youth be comes iron heroes." They are sent to the Western Front, where they find that iron, like everything else, quickly disintegrates in the trenches. A veteran, Katczinsky (Ernest Borgnine), teaches them the two essentials of staying alive - stealing food and killing Frenchies. Never...
Reality assumes wild forms as present and past collide and then split apart like memories bouncing off the walls of the brain. Each scene is Charlie's remembrance of incidents of his youth--his last good book, his first good job, his parents' first and last fight, his first sex. Charlie Now (age 45) and Young Charlie (age 17) waltz together on stage. They bicker. The elder blames the younger for childhood failures and gets taunted in return for his failure in maturity...