Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...youngster who comes to college is an ill-informed, irresponsible, unambitious product of American adolescence. His vision of life rarely goes beyond beer, dates, and perhaps reading a good book. And on this ill-kempt bumpkin depends the future of America. Out of such material we will build IBM machines and a World Bank. Obviously the college must do heroic things...
...four short years the college weans him from his adolescent languor by giving substance to such middle class ideals as order, planning, ambition, and achievement. During his four year stay at college this youngster turns from his teen-age dreams to the impersonal requirements of his future career--work and individual responsibility. His college degree symbolizes his surrender to the success ethic, and his ability to gradate foreshadows ability in the conference room and at the bargaining counter...
...makes the scholar peculiarly fitted to act as social elevator boy in modern society. Parents who seeks paths by which their children can transcend the increasingly rigid stratification of American society have discovered that education is practically the only road to the top. Only in the schools can the youngster learn to prefer competition and success to complacency and group approval. And only by succeeding in school can he convince the marketplace that he has the talents it demands. Indeed, the symbolic degree has become so important that even those born to the purple have trouble retaining their inherited status...
...adjustments were necessary when her family moved from Lawrence to Harvard, but Mrs. Pusey asserts that "I have no generalizations to offer about the Mid-West and the East. There are differences, none of them shocking, and most of them superficial. I think it may be easier for a youngster who wants to study to do so here, without having to hide it. And the old prep school myth--what they used to call 'lack of serious-mindedness'--doesn't seem to be true...
Ford brought out its 1959 Edsel this week with a face lifting, but it carefully redesigned the whole selling pitch for its one-year-old youngster. Instead of competing with medium-priced cars, as originally planned, Edsel is now aimed at the low-priced buyer. Ford switched Edsel's price range from last year's $2,300-$3,489 to $2,320-$2,807 by dropping two of last year's higher-priced models (the Citation and the Pacer), thus bringing Edsel down into the price range of the top series of the Big Three...