Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soviet Russia, while society is changing and the young show signs of restlessness, youth by and large remains earnestly conformist. In Japan, despite occasional student riots organized by the left, the students' competitive drudgery makes even the American race for college seem relaxed by comparison; a Japanese youngster who fails to get into a university is called a ronin, the term for the pathetic samurai who wandered about without a master...
...girls who call themselves "the Filthy Five," and hang out in a surrealistically appointed turret room of a quaint Manhattan apartment building. These kids are not remotely real, but they have most of the commercially fashionable maladjustments from homosexuality to reefer-dragging, though Playwright Mary Drayton permits one youngster to be merely obese...
They all agree that an ambitious youngster should start planning early in life. A college education may be helpful, but it is not necessary. Says James Thomas, 37, a Los Angeles real estate and manufacturing millionaire: "College prepares you to work for someone else-and you can only make a million by working for yourself." The big corporation is no place to get rich, the millionaires believe; competition for top positions is much more rugged among corporate executives than among self-bossed entrepreneurs. Hired executives rarely become millionaires; the few who do so make the grade through stock options, which...
Hints of Espionage. As a youngster, Dorothy wanted to grow up to be like Daddy-crack I.N.S. Reporter James Kilgallen. The summer after her freshman year at the College of New Rochelle, she went to work at the New York Evening Journal and liked it so much she never went back to the class room. Enjoying a well-known byline by the time she was 23, she joined a race with two other New York reporters to see who could get around the world fastest by commercial airline. By clock and calendar, Dorothy came in second; in the contest...
...Lipchitz. The youngest of the cubists at 24, he is half a century later one of the elders of modern art. With Picasso 84 and Chagall 78, Lipchitz is the third in a line of living patriarchs who led the 20th century artistic transformation. As an eight-year-old youngster in Lithuania, Lipchitz made clay toys to give girls, says he, "so they would be nice to me. You see, I started sculpting for love." The dolls of his youth have ripened into shattered torsos, tortured totems, writhing beasts...