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Young Men’s Christian Association (Christian lay movement)
nonsectarian, nonpolitical Christian lay movement that aims to develop high standards of Christian character through group activities and citizenship training. It originated in London in 1844, when 12 young men, led by George Williams, an employee in, and subsequently the head of, a drapery house, formed a club for the ...
Young Men’s Christian Association Training School (school, Springfield, Massachusetts, United States)
...strictly of U.S. origin, basketball was invented by James Naismith (1861–1939) on or about December 1, 1891, at the International Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) Training School (now Springfield College), Springfield, Massachusetts, where Naismith was an instructor in physical education....
Young, Michael (British lawyer, sociologist and reformer)
British lawyer, sociologist, and social reformer (b. Aug. 9, 1915, Manchester, Eng.—d. Jan. 14, 2002, London, Eng.), was best known for having written the Labour Party’s 1945 social-welfare manifesto and for having coined the pejorative term meritocracy (in his 1958 satire The Rise of the Meritocracy, 1870–2033) to denounce the political and eco...
Young modulus (physics)
numerical constant, named for the 18th-century English physician and physicist Thomas Young, that describes the elastic properties of a solid undergoing tension or compression in only one direction, as in the case of a metal rod that after being stretched or compressed lengthwise returns to its original length. Young’s modulus is a measure of the abilit...
Young Mr. Lincoln (film by Ford [1939])
...1934) constitute a kind of painting with light; John Ford, whose vision of history as moral truth produced such mythic works as Stagecoach (1939), Young Mr. Lincoln (1939), The Grapes of Wrath (1940), My Darling Clementine (1946), and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon......
Young, Murat Bernard (American cartoonist)
U.S. cartoonist who created the comic strip “Blondie,” which, by the 1960s, was syndicated in more than 1,500 newspapers throughout the world....
Young, Neil (Canadian musician and filmmaker)
Canadian guitarist, singer, and songwriter best known for his eclectic sweep, from solo folkie to grungy guitar-rocker....
Young New Zealand Party (political group, New Zealand)
parliamentary group that became most palpable as a vigorous faction within the parliamentary opposition to the Conservative government of Harry Albert Atkinson (1887–90) and that provided the Liberal Party with many of its future major figures. Prominent in the party were William Pember Reeves, Joseph Ward, and ...
Young of Dartington, Michael Dunlop Young, Baron (British lawyer, sociologist and reformer)
British lawyer, sociologist, and social reformer (b. Aug. 9, 1915, Manchester, Eng.—d. Jan. 14, 2002, London, Eng.), was best known for having written the Labour Party’s 1945 social-welfare manifesto and for having coined the pejorative term meritocracy (in his 1958 satire The Rise of the Meritocracy, 1870–2033) to denounce the political and eco...
Young of Farnworth, Janet Mary Baker Young, Baroness (British politician)
British politician (b. Oct. 23, 1926, Widnes, Lancashire, Eng.—d. Sept. 6, 2002, Oxford, Eng.), was the first woman to serve as leader of the House of Lords; a committed conservative, she was perhaps best known for her zealous dedication to traditional family values and sexual morality, a stance that brought her heated criticism, especially from gay rights groups, late in her career. Young ...
Young Ottomans (Turkish organization)
secret Turkish nationalist organization formed in Istanbul in June 1865. A forerunner of other Turkish nationalist groups (see Young Turks), the Young Ottomans favoured converting the Turkish-dominated multinational Ottoman Empire into a more purely Turkish state and called for the creation of a ...
Young, Owen D. (American lawyer)
U.S. lawyer and businessman best known for his efforts to solve reparations issues after World War I....
Young, Paul Thomas (American psychologist)
Another auditory illusion was described in 1928 by Paul Thomas Young, an American psychologist, who tested the process of sound localization (the direction from which sound seems to come). He constructed a pseudophone, an instrument made of two ear trumpets, one leading from the right side of the head to the left ear and the other vice versa. This created the illusory impression of reversed......
Young Plan (European history)
(1929), second renegotiation of Germany’s World War I reparation payments. A new committee, chaired by the American Owen D. Young, met in Paris on Feb. 11, 1929, to revise the Dawes Plan of 1924. Its report...
Young Poland movement (Polish literary group)
diverse group of early 20th-century Neoromantic writers brought together in reaction against Naturalism and Positivism. Inspired by Polish Romantic writers and also by contemporary western European trends such as Symbolism, they sought to revive the unfettered expression of feeling and imagination in ...
Young Polish Composer’s Publishing Co. (Polish music company)
...early age. In 1901 he went to Warsaw and studied harmony, counterpoint, and composition privately until 1904. Finding the musical life in Warsaw limiting, he went to Berlin, where he organized the Young Polish Composers’ Publishing Co. (1905–12) to publish new works by his countrymen. His compositions from this period, which include the opera Hagith (1913), show the influen...
Young Rascals, the (American rock group)
...1940Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, U.S.—November 5, 2003Kalamazoo, Michigan), and the Rascals (known for a time as the Young Rascals), whose principal members were Felix Cavaliere (b. Nov...
Young, Robert (American actor)
American actor (b. Feb. 22, 1907, Chicago, Ill.--d. July 21, 1998, Westlake Village, Calif.), was best remembered for his portrayal of benevolent authority figures, starring in the title roles of such television classics as "Father Knows Best" and "Marcus Welby, M.D." When he was 10 years old, his family moved to Los Angeles, where he later performed in high school plays and ...
Young, Roland (American actor)
Cary Grant (C.K. Dexter Haven)Katharine Hepburn (Tracy Lord)James Stewart (Macaulay Connor)Ruth Hussey (Elizabeth Imbrie)John Howard (George Kittredge)Roland Young (Uncle Willie)...
Young Roscius, The (British actor)
English actor who won instant success as a child prodigy....
“Young Scholar, The” (play by Lessing)
...which had recently been revitalized by the work of a talented and energetic actress, Caroline Neuber. Neuber took an interest in the young poet and in 1748 successfully produced his comedy Der junge Gelehrte (“The Young Scholar”). The play is a delightful satire on an arrogant, superficial, vain, and easily offended scholar, a figure through which Lessing mocked his own......
Young, Steve (American football player)
American gridiron football player who is considered one of the most accurate quarterbacks in National Football League (NFL) history....
Young, Thomas (British physician and physicist)
English physician and physicist who established the principle of interference of light and thus resurrected the century-old wave theory of light. He was also an Egyptologist who helped decipher the Rosetta Stone (see )....
Young Tom (Scottish golfer)
Scottish golfer who, like his father, Thomas Morris, won the British Open golf tournament four times....
Young Torless (film by Schlöndorff)
...1960s, he returned to Germany and joined the burgeoning Junger Deutscher (Young German) film movement. His first feature, Der junge Törless (1966; Young Törless), an adaptation of the Robert Musil novella Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törless, earned him instant recognition. This study of a......
Young Tunisians (political party, Tunisia)
political party formed in 1907 by young French-educated Tunisian intellectuals in opposition to the French protectorate established in 1883....
Young Turk Revolution of 1908 (Ottoman-Turkish history)
Several conspiracies took place against Abdülhamid. In 1889 a conspiracy in the military medical college spread to other Istanbul colleges. These conspirators came to call themselves the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP; İttihad ve Terakki Cemiyeti) and were commonly known as the Young Turks. When the plot was discovered, some of its leaders went abroad to reinforce Ottoman exile...
Young Turks (Turkish nationalist movement)
coalition of various reform groups that led a revolutionary movement against the authoritarian regime of Ottoman sultan Abdülhamid II, which culminated in the establishment of a constitutional government. After their rise to power, the Young Turks introduced programs that promoted the modernization of the ...
Young Turks (political organization, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States)
In about 1900 Philadelphia had been described as “corrupt but content,” a status quo that Philadelphians were indeed content with until 1939, when a group known as the Young Turks and influenced by the nationwide New Deal of the Democratic Party began to agitate for charter reform and a city planning commission; the Democrats would eventually dominate politics in the city and most......
young urban professional (social group)
...mid-1970s the movement had waned, and by the 1980s hippies had given way to a new generation of young people who were intent on making careers for themselves in business and who came to be known as yuppies (young urban professionals). Nonetheless, hippies continued to have an influence on the wider culture, seen, for example, in more relaxed attitudes toward sex, in the new concern for the......
Young Vic (British theatrical company)
...Anne Boleyn drama; and a raucous, rollicking version of both parts of Henry IV, with RSC alumnus Roger Allam as the best-spoken, though not the fattest, Falstaff in living memory. The Young Vic celebrated its 40th anniversary (not bad for a “temporary” adjunct to Laurence Olivier’s Old Vic) with great revivals of August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s C...
Young, Victor (American composer)
Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-MayerDirector: George SidneyProducer: Carey WilsonWriters: Ronald Millar and George FroeschelMusic: Victor YoungRunning time: 115 minutes...
Young, Whitney M., Jr. (American civil-rights activist)
articulate U.S. civil rights leader who spearheaded the drive for equal opportunity for blacks in U.S. industry and government service during his 10 years as head of the National Urban League (1961–71), the world’s largest social-civil rights organization. His advocacy of a “Domestic Mar...
Young, Whitney Moore, Jr. (American civil-rights activist)
articulate U.S. civil rights leader who spearheaded the drive for equal opportunity for blacks in U.S. industry and government service during his 10 years as head of the National Urban League (1961–71), the world’s largest social-civil rights organization. His advocacy of a “Domestic Mar...
Young Woman with a Water Pitcher (painting by Vermeer)
...themselves with jewelry, Vermeer sought ways to express a sense of inner harmony within everyday life, primarily in the confines of a private chamber. In paintings such as Young Woman with a Water Pitcher (c. 1664–65), Woman with a Pearl Necklace (c. 1664), and Woman in Blue Reading a......
Young Women’s Christian Association (Christian lay movement)
nonsectarian Christian organization that aims “to advance the physical, social, intellectual, moral, and spiritual interests of young women.” The recreational, educational, and spiritual aspects of its program are symbolized in its insignia, a blue triangle the three sides of which stand for body, mind, and spirit. The YWCA and the ...
Young Zulu Kid (American boxer)
...title, on Jan. 25, 1915, when his corner threw in the towel during the 17th round against Tancy Lee of Scotland. After regaining the European title, Wilde fought the American flyweight champion, Young Zulu Kid (Giuseppe Di Melfi), on Dec. 18, 1916. With his 11th-round knockout, Wilde became the first world flyweight champion, a title that he held until he was knocked out in the seventh round......
Young-Helmholtz three-colour theory
It was the phenomena of colour mixing that led Thomas Young in 1802 to postulate that there are three receptors, each one especially sensitive to one part of the spectrum; these receptors were thought to convey messages to the brain, and, depending on how strongly they were stimulated by the coloured light, the combined message would be interpreted as that due to the actual colour. The theory......
Younger, Bob (American criminal)
four Midwestern American outlaws of the post-Civil War era—Thomas Coleman (“Cole”; 1844–1916), John (1846–74); James (“Jim”; 1850–1902), and Robert (“Bob”; 1853–89)—who were often allied with Jesse James....
Younger brothers (American criminals)
four Midwestern American outlaws of the post-Civil War era—Thomas Coleman (“Cole”; 1844–1916), John (1846–74); James (“Jim”; 1850–1902), and Robert (“Bob”; 1853–89)—who were often allied with Jesse James....
Younger, Cole (American criminal)
...Jesse and Frank shared their family’s sympathy with the Southern cause when the American Civil War broke out (1861). Frank joined William C. Quantrill’s Confederate guerrillas, becoming friends with Cole Younger, a fellow member. Jesse followed suit by joining “Bloody” Bill Anderson’s guerrilla band. At the end of the war the bands surrendered, but Jesse was r...
Younger Dryas climate interval (climatology)
...University of Oregon at Eugene with seven coauthors from several universities published persuasive evidence linking a cosmic impact to megafaunal extinctions and abrupt ecosystem disruptions at the Younger Dryas boundary about 12,900 years ago, a time when Earth was emerging from the last glacial period. The boundary was marked in North America by a widespread layer of black sedimentary rocks.....
“Younger Edda” (work by Snorri Sturluson)
in Germanic folklore, originally, a spirit of any kind, later specialized into a diminutive creature, usually in tiny human form. In the Prose, or Younger, Edda, elves were classified as light elves (who were fair) and dark elves (who were darker than pitch); these classifications are roughly equivalent to the Scottish seelie court and unseelie court. The notable characteristics......
Younger, James (American criminal)
four Midwestern American outlaws of the post-Civil War era—Thomas Coleman (“Cole”; 1844–1916), John (1846–74); James (“Jim”; 1850–1902), and Robert (“Bob”; 1853–89)—who were often allied with Jesse James....
Younger, Jim (American criminal)
four Midwestern American outlaws of the post-Civil War era—Thomas Coleman (“Cole”; 1844–1916), John (1846–74); James (“Jim”; 1850–1902), and Robert (“Bob”; 1853–89)—who were often allied with Jesse James....
Younger, John (American criminal)
four Midwestern American outlaws of the post-Civil War era—Thomas Coleman (“Cole”; 1844–1916), John (1846–74); James (“Jim”; 1850–1902), and Robert (“Bob”; 1853–89)—who were often allied with Jesse James....
Younger Reuss (historical principality, Germany)
...the Russian (so designated after a trip to Russia and marriage to a Galician princess). It became Lutheran and split itself in 1564 into three lines, Elder Reuss, Middle Reuss (extinct 1616), and Younger Reuss. Elder Reuss had its capital, Greiz, and other possessions in Oberland; Younger Reuss possessed Unterland, with the capital at Gera, and half of Oberland....
Younger, Robert (American criminal)
four Midwestern American outlaws of the post-Civil War era—Thomas Coleman (“Cole”; 1844–1916), John (1846–74); James (“Jim”; 1850–1902), and Robert (“Bob”; 1853–89)—who were often allied with Jesse James....
Younger, Thomas Coleman (American criminal)
...Jesse and Frank shared their family’s sympathy with the Southern cause when the American Civil War broke out (1861). Frank joined William C. Quantrill’s Confederate guerrillas, becoming friends with Cole Younger, a fellow member. Jesse followed suit by joining “Bloody” Bill Anderson’s guerrilla band. At the end of the war the bands surrendered, but Jesse was r...
Younghusband, Sir Francis Edward (British army officer)
British army officer and explorer whose travels, mainly in northern India and Tibet, yielded major contributions to geographical research; he also forced the conclusion of the Anglo-Tibetan Treaty (September 6, 1904) that gained Britain long-sought trade concessions....
Youngman, Henny (American comedian)
American comedian (b. 1902/1906?, England--d. Feb. 24, 1998, New York, N.Y.), was heralded as the king of the one-liner. With his trademark violin and the catchphrase "Take my wife--please," Youngman became one of the leading comedic acts of the 1940s-1960s. He was born to Russian-Jewish parents who had immigrated to the U.S. but were living in England temporarily. Growing up in Brooklyn, N.Y., Yo...
Youngman, Henry (American comedian)
American comedian (b. 1902/1906?, England--d. Feb. 24, 1998, New York, N.Y.), was heralded as the king of the one-liner. With his trademark violin and the catchphrase "Take my wife--please," Youngman became one of the leading comedic acts of the 1940s-1960s. He was born to Russian-Jewish parents who had immigrated to the U.S. but were living in England temporarily. Growing up in Brooklyn, N.Y., Yo...
Young’s double slit (optics)
classical investigation into the nature of light, an investigation that provided the basic element in the development of the wave theory and was first performed by the English physicist and physician Thomas Young in 1801. In this experiment, Young identified the phenomenon called interference. Observing t...
Young’s experiment (optics)
classical investigation into the nature of light, an investigation that provided the basic element in the development of the wave theory and was first performed by the English physicist and physician Thomas Young in 1801. In this experiment, Young identified the phenomenon called interference. Observing t...
Young’s modulus (physics)
numerical constant, named for the 18th-century English physician and physicist Thomas Young, that describes the elastic properties of a solid undergoing tension or compression in only one direction, as in the case of a metal rod that after being stretched or compressed lengthwise returns to its original length. Young’s modulus is a measure of the abilit...
Youngs, Ross (American baseball player)
numerical constant, named for the 18th-century English physician and physicist Thomas Young, that describes the elastic properties of a solid undergoing tension or compression in only one direction, as in the case of a metal rod that after being stretched or compressed lengthwise returns to its original length. Young’s modulus is a measure of the abilit...
Youngstown (Ohio, United States)
city, Mahoning and Trumbull counties, seat (1876) of Mahoning county, northeastern Ohio, U.S. It lies along the Mahoning River, near the Pennsylvania border, and is equidistant (65 miles [105 km]) from Cleveland (northwest) and Pittsburgh (southeast). Youngstown is the heart of a steel-industrial complex that includes the cities of Warren, Niles, Campbell, Str...
Youngstown College (university, Youngstown, Ohio, United States)
public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Youngstown, Ohio, U.S. It comprises Williamson College of Business Administration, Rayen College of Engineering and Technology, and colleges of arts and sciences, education, fine and performing arts, and health and human services. In addition to undergraduate studies, t...
Youngstown Institute of Technology (university, Youngstown, Ohio, United States)
public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Youngstown, Ohio, U.S. It comprises Williamson College of Business Administration, Rayen College of Engineering and Technology, and colleges of arts and sciences, education, fine and performing arts, and health and human services. In addition to undergraduate studies, t...
Youngstown State University (university, Youngstown, Ohio, United States)
public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Youngstown, Ohio, U.S. It comprises Williamson College of Business Administration, Rayen College of Engineering and Technology, and colleges of arts and sciences, education, fine and performing arts, and health and human services. In addition to undergraduate studies, t...
Youngville (Alabama, United States)
city, Tallapoosa county, east-central Alabama, U.S., 75 miles (120 km) southeast of Birmingham. Early settlement began in 1836, and gold was discovered in the area in the early 1840s. It was known as Youngsville until 1873, when it was named for General Edward Porter Alexander, president of the Savannah and Memphis (Central of Georgia) Railroad. To the south, ...
Yount, Robin (American baseball player)
...local minor league team, the Brewers. The Brewers struggled initially, posting a losing record in each of their first eight seasons in Milwaukee. The arrival of future Hall of Fame shortstop Robin Yount in 1974 heralded the beginning of a slow turnaround for the Brewers, which was further bolstered in 1978 by the debut of another future Hall of Famer, infielder–designated hitter......
“Your Body Is a Battleground” (work by Kruger)
...had developed her trademark style: large-scale photographic works that appropriate anonymous cultural images and text and juxtapose them in unexpected ways. In her 1989 work Untitled (Your Body Is a Battleground), for example, she employed an oversized image of a model’s face and divided it into sections. Placed across the image is the phrase “Your body i...
Your Body Is a Wonderland (song by Mayer)
...album Room for Squares (2001). Columbia Records repackaged the album with additional material for a much higher-profile national release later in 2001. The song “Your Body Is a Wonderland” became a major hit on adult alternative radio stations and earned Mayer a Grammy Award for best male pop vocal performance. Mayer’s next studio release, ......
Your Party (political party, Japan)
centre-right political party in Japan. It was established in August 2009 by Watanabe Yoshimi—formerly of the Liberal-Democratic Party (LDP), who had resigned from the LDP early that year over policy disagreements with then prime...
“Your Radio Playhouse” (American radio and television program)
American television and radio personality who was the popular host of a radio program (begun 1995 and later adapted for television) called This American Life....
Your Show of Shows (American television program)
American composer. He studied at the University of Wisconsin and then collaborated with Larry Holofcener on songs for television’s Your Show of Shows and the musical Mr. Wonderful (1956). With the composer-lyricist Sheldon Harnick he had his greatest successes: Fiorello! (1959, Pulitzer Prize) and Fiddler on the Roof (1964)....
Your Song (song by John and Taupin)
...was strongly American-influenced, as was his pianism, an ornate, gospel-flavoured elaboration of the stylings of Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis. His first American hit, Your Song, in 1970, was a love ballad that combined the introspective mood of the era’s singer-songwriters with a more traditional pop craftsmanship. John’s early 1970s recordings paid ...
Yourcenar, Marguerite (French author)
novelist, essayist, and short-story writer who became the first woman to be elected to the Académie Française (French Academy), an exclusive literary institution with a membership limited to 40....
You’re Fine, You’re Hired (work by Simpson)
...use of human subjects, usually African American women, whose faces were hidden or obscured. Simpson’s photography typically explored the perception of African American women in American culture. You’re Fine, You’re Hired (1988), using Polaroid prints framed in wood, depicted an African American woman lying on her side. To the left of the images was a list of terms re...
You’re Welcome America. A Final Night with George W. Bush (play by Ferrell)
In 2009 Ferrell made his Broadway debut in the one-man play You’re Welcome America. A Final Night with George W. Bush, which he wrote. The play featured Ferrell’s Bush giving some imaginative reminiscences and defenses of his administration. It earned a Tony Award nomination for special theatrical event and was broadcast on the cable channel HBO after the ...
yourt (milk food)
semifluid fermented milk food having a smooth texture and mildly sour flavour because of its lactic acid content. Yogurt may be made from the milk of cows, sheep, goats, or water buffalo. Cow’s milk is used in the ...
Yousen (Chinese poet)
Chinese poet who strove to loosen Chinese poetry from its traditional forms and to reshape it under the influences of Western poetry and the vernacular Chinese language....
Youssoufi, Abderrahmane (prime minister of Morocco)
...1990s culminated in the election of the first opposition government in Morocco in more than 30 years. In 1997 opposition parties won the largest bloc of seats in the lower house, and in March 1998 Abderrahmane Youssoufi (ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Yūsufī), a leader of the Socialist Union of Popular Forces, was appointed as prime minister. Under pressure from human rights....
youth
...(quick sex and puppy love). It was therefore dismissed by many in the music industry as a passing novelty, “bubblegum,” akin to the yo-yo or the hula hoop. But by the mid-1960s youth had become an ideological category that referred to a particular kind of hedonism, individualism, and modernism. Whereas youth once referred to high-school students, it came to......
Youth (short story by Conrad)
...voyage in an open boat. In 1898 Conrad published his account of his experiences on the Palestine, with only slight alterations, as the short story “Youth,” a remarkable tale of a young officer’s first command....
Youth (portrait by Giorgione)
...and Lorenzo Lotto so closely imitated him in the early 16th century that it is at times virtually impossible to distinguish between them. Nevertheless, the portrait of a Youth (c. 1504) is universally considered to be by Giorgione. The indescribably subtle expression of serenity and the immobile features, added to the chiseled effect of the silhouette and......
Youth (work by Tolstoy)
...early 1860s experimented with new forms for expressing his moral and philosophical concerns. To Childhood he soon added Otrochestvo (1854; Boyhood) and Yunost (1857; Youth). A number of stories centre on a single semiautobiographical character, Dmitry Nekhlyudov, who later reappeared as the hero of Tolstoy’s novel Resurrection. In......
Youth Aliyah (international movement)
...to her death. In 1931–33 she served in the Vaad Leumi, the executive committee of the Knesset Israel (Palestinian Jewish National Assembly). From its creation in 1933 she was director of the Youth Aliyah, an agency created to rescue Jewish children from Nazi Germany and bring them to Palestine. Late in life she founded Lemaan ha-Yeled, an institution dedicated to child welfare and......
Youth and the Bright Medusa (short stories by Cather)
...to her death. In 1931–33 she served in the Vaad Leumi, the executive committee of the Knesset Israel (Palestinian Jewish National Assembly). From its creation in 1933 she was director of the Youth Aliyah, an agency created to rescue Jewish children from Nazi Germany and bring them to Palestine. Late in life she founded Lemaan ha-Yeled, an institution dedicated to child welfare and.........
youth court (law)
special court handling problems of delinquent, neglected, or abused children. The juvenile court fulfills the government’s role as substitute parent, and, where no juvenile court exists, other courts must assume the function....
youth gang (crime)
a group of persons, usually youths, who share a common identity and who generally engage in criminal behaviour. In contrast to the criminal behaviour of other youths, the activities of gangs are characterized by some level of organization and continuity over time. There is no consensus on the exact definition of a gang, however, and scholars have debated whether the definition should expressly inc...
youth hostel (hotel)
supervised shelter providing inexpensive overnight lodging, particularly for young people. Hostels range from simple accommodations in a farm house to hotels able to house several hundred guests for days at a time. They are located in many parts of the world, usually in scenic areas, and are spaced at intervals so that hostelers can hike, bicycle, or canoe from one to the next in a day. Hostelers...
Youth International Party (American political organization)
...1968, various peace groups—notably an amalgam of new leftists, the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam (“the Mobe” to its adherents), and the more whimsical Youth International Party, or “Yippies”—planned massive demonstrations. Before the Democratic convention opened, the demonstration leaders trained “parade marshals...
Youth, Isle of (island and municipality, Cuba)
island and municipio especial (special municipality) of Cuba, in the Caribbean Sea. It is bounded on the northwest by the Canal de los Indios and on the north and northeast by the Gulf of Batabanó, which separate it from the mainland of Cuba. A 1904 treaty reco...
Youth Olympic Games of 2010, The (Youth Olympic Games)
On Aug. 14, 2010, some 3,600 young athletes between the ages of 14 and 18 gathered in Singapore with family, friends, and officials of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for the opening ceremony of the inaugural Youth Olympic Games (YOG). By the end of the 12-day Games, teenagers representing 204 National Olympic Committees—from Afghanistan to Zi...
Youth Pledge (Indonesian history)
The nationalist sentiment resonated beyond political parties, however. On Oct. 28, 1928, a number of representatives of youth organizations issued the historic Youth Pledge (Sumpah Pemuda), whereby they vowed to recognize only one Indonesian motherland, one Indonesian people, and one Indonesian language. It was a landmark event in the country’s history and also is considered the founding mo...
Youth, Union of (group of artists)
...poets Vasily Kamensky, Velimir Khlebnikov, and Vladimir Mayakovsky. In 1911 he also met Kazimir Malevich and Aleksey Kruchonykh. In November 1909, Matyushin and Guro founded the group known as the Union of Youth, which was mainly made up of former members of Triangle. Though the couple was soon to leave the group because of differences in their aesthetic views, Guro and Matyushin remained in......
Youth Without Youth (film by Coppola)
...a swirling, hyperrealist comedy of cultural misunderstanding set during the Kosovo conflict in 1999. Marking another Romanian milestone, the eternal maverick Francis Ford Coppola arrived to shoot Youth Without Youth—a flickeringly engaging talk-laden tale about regeneration and time’s ticking clock, made with much local talent....
Youth’s Companion (American magazine)
...There were no national magazines in the United States before about 1850, but two of its best-known early periodicals were the Saturday Evening Post (1821–1969; revived 1971) and Youth’s Companion (1827–1929). The latter, published in Boston, was typically wholesome in content, intended to “warn against the ways of transgression” and to encourage....
YouTube (Web site)
Web site for sharing videos. It was registered on Feb. 15, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, three former employees of the American e-commerce company PayPal. They had the idea that ordinary people would enjoy sharing their “home videos.” The company is headquartered in San Bruno, Calif....
You’ve Got Mail (film by Ephron [1998])
...commercial failures, Ephron returned to Sleepless in Seattle’s winning formula in the late 1990s, once again pairing Hanks and Ryan in the romantic comedy You’ve Got Mail (1998), which updates the anonymous epistolary romance of the 1940 film The Shop Around the Corner for the age of online communication....
You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’ (recording by the Righteous Brothers)
...as “little symphonies for the kids.” Others called it the wall of sound, and the style reached a peak in 1965 with the blue-eyed soul of the Righteous Brothers’ epic You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’, a huge worldwide hit. Spector threatened to top it with Ike and Tina Turner’s majestic River Deep—M...
Youwang (emperor of Zhou dynasty)
...Liwang, a tyrant, and replaced him with a collective leadership headed by the two most influential nobles until the crown prince was enthroned. In 771 bc the Zhou royal line was again broken when Youwang was killed by invading barbarians. The nobles apparently were split at that time, because the break gave rise to two courts, headed by two princes, each of whom had the support of...
Youzhou (historical city, China)
...including the site where Beijing now stands, was largely under the control of invading nomads. It was not recovered by the Han people until the Tang dynasty (618–907), when it became known as Youzhou. By the middle of the Tang, measures were being taken to prevent the nomadic Tangut tribes of Tibet, such as the Xi Xia, and the Khitans (a Turco-Mongolian people from Manchuria) from raidin...
Yovkov, Yordan (Bulgarian author)
Bulgarian short-story writer, novelist, and dramatist whose stories of Balkan peasant life and military experiences show a fine mastery of prose....
Yovkov, Yordan Stefanov (Bulgarian author)
Bulgarian short-story writer, novelist, and dramatist whose stories of Balkan peasant life and military experiences show a fine mastery of prose....
Yow, Kay (American basketball coach)
March 14, 1942Gibsonville, N.C.Jan. 24, 2009Cary, N.C.American basketball coach who was a legendary figure in women’s college basketball who served (1975–2009) as the head coach at North Carolina State University and became one of the winningest coaches in National Collegiate ...
Yow, Sandra Kay (American basketball coach)
March 14, 1942Gibsonville, N.C.Jan. 24, 2009Cary, N.C.American basketball coach who was a legendary figure in women’s college basketball who served (1975–2009) as the head coach at North Carolina State University and became one of the winningest coaches in National Collegiate ...
yowagin (Japanese music)
...The melodies of Noh can be categorized into two basic styles, the strong (tsuyogin) and the lyric (yowagin). Their differences are most evident in the placement of fundamental tones and the use of auxiliary tones around them. In the lyric style the three basic tones (......