Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little, tousle-haired boy has built a magnificent sand castle, complete with turrets and battlements. Then the rains come. Standing amid the washed-out ruins of his "house upon the sand," the youngster seems to be groping for a half-forgotten truth from Sunday school. "There's a lesson to be learned here somewhere," he says wanly. "But I don't know what...
...frail, carrot-topped youngster in Michigan, Vaughn took up boxing in self-defense, went on to win the state Golden Gloves title as a 124-lb. feather weight (and have his nose broken three times, his jaw once). Picking up his master's degree from the University of Michigan in 1947, he spent ten years in Bolivia, Costa Rica and Panama as a United States Information Service officer and as a coordinator of U.S. aid projects. In 1961 he went to Washington as director of the Peace Corps' sprawling Latin American operation. President Johnson soon tagged...
...were pregnant when he married them, and that he also had a son by a Tahitian beauty whom he didn't marry. The judge decided that Marlon's methods were mere "shortcomings" compared to Anna's "reliance on drugs and alcohol," therefore awarded custody of the youngster to Brando. Cried Anna, dashing from the court in tears, "I bore this baby! Where the hell was Marlon Brando when the child was being reared?" Rhetorical question...
...shattering to a person with normal hearing. At first the sensation means nothing to the student. But he also gets a visual signal; a light flashes on along with the sound, and the teacher gestures with her hand to show that she has heard and seen. The youngster copies her and gestures with his hand to show that he, too, has heard and seen. Soon he learns to recognize the sound alone, and the visual cue is abandoned. Next he learns that sounds may be long or short, and with building blocks of different lengths he tells teacher which...
...Transformation. "The youngster who has only muscle to sell is an obsolete man," observes William Levenson, education professor at Western Reserve. Whereas earlier generations believed that there were many ways to get ahead, today's teen-agers think that schooling is perhaps the only way to success. "The educational period which was once tentative and experimental," notes Anthropologist Mead, "is now quite as directly functional as the life of a weaver's apprentice during the Middle Ages." The resulting "college education syndrome" puts immense pressures on teenagers. Some kids occasionally rise at 3 a.m. to study-one Washington...