Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...college classmates at a 40th reunion. The Supreme de Volatile Eugenie on the menu is standard hotel chicken with yellow gravy, and the platitudes served up by the speakers might be heard at any nostalgic or vaguely patriotic gathering. But the memories are not of the promise of youth or of bright college years. Mostly, they are of spying...
...Kennedy inherited from his brothers. Says Theodore White: "The shadow legions of the Kennedys stretch from Maine to San Francisco. Just as Ezekiel's prophecy had the power to wake the dead, the Kennedy name will bring out the people who remember the old days with the sentiment of youth...
...Motlana, you're chairman of the Soweto Committee of Ten. How did the committee come about? What is its purpose? Dr. M.: After the riots in 1976, the youth got together and said we must do something to organize our own affairs. They approached me and asked me to come to their organizational meeting, where I was elected chairman. We have no specific goals, we just want an impartial voice for the community. We want to arrange our own affairs and not have someone from the West Rand Administration (government agency) arrange them...
...decided that spiritual corruption had begun to decay American life. They pointed to a society burdened with the "national disease" of success. Middle class respectability had become a form of living death. A new, "restless generation" had committed itself to early marriages and children, thereby cheating itself of its youth...
...major concerns of Somerville voters are police protection, tax rates, and services for the city's youth and elderly, Mackey says. More personal matters such as cracked sidewalks in front of their houses and gangs of teenagers that cause problems on weekends also figure prominently in citizens' minds...