Word: congestion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brief Muddle. Will Pasadena's teenagers, who congest the sands of nearby Balboa like mating seals, detach themselves from the herd and grow up to be men and women? It seems unlikely. Only death, like poverty or God, an unmentionable fact of life, offers Decker a vision of life in its grave reality. He flunks a child-watching chore, and his little cousin Buddy dies a Californian death by surfboard. This muddles him for a time, but we are given to understand he will soon settle down to life with the other seals. One of his friends, however...