Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...street workers, often storefront graduates themselves, make the initial contact with a promising dropout. Upon entering the academy, a youngster takes a bedrock curriculum of reading, English grammar and arithmetic. Once attending regularly, he moves on to a storefront Academy of Transition, where the spectrum of courses is broader and the teachers-often college graduates disillusioned with the public schools-attempt to stimulate his interest in further learning...
Even as a youngster in The Bronx, Mel Powell was a brilliantly advanced musician. At least that is the way he remembers it. Of course, his fledgling compositions did not exactly bowl over his piano teacher, who "seemed to prefer Mozart." But it was already clear that Powell was something special. He completed high school at 14, and started a precocious career playing jazz piano. "It turned out," he recalls, with barely a smile of irony, "that I became magnificent...
...called disadvantaged ten-year-olds were in a heated argument in school, where they were seated across the table from each other, drawing each other's portrait. One boy had drawn the other with an extremely long neck. When the art teacher inquired about the trouble, the irate youngster asked, "Who in the hell does he think he is, Modigliani?" MARIE L. LARKIN Supervisor of Art Board of Education St. Louis
Finally, 23 minutes after the shootings, the ambulances collected the stricken: the youngster Stroll; Paul Schrade, 43, the United Auto Workers' Pacific Coast regional director, whose profusely bleeding head rested on a white plastic Kennedy-campaign boater; Ira Goldstein, 19, a part-time employee of Continental News Service, hit in the left hip; William Weisel, 30, an American Broadcasting Co. associate director, wounded in the abdomen; Mrs. Elizabeth Evans, 43, who with her husband Arthur had been touring the several election-night headquarters and wound up with a slug in her forehead. Although Schrade was the one who appeared dead...
...There was a six-year-old ghetto boy admitted to the hospital where I worked for treatment of rheumatic fever. We became aware that Jimmy was a disturbed youngster, and we did some psychological testing. Jimmy, in tests that are admittedly culture-bound, tested out at an IQ of 125. His mother was as you've described the poverty-stricken-dull and depressed. We all looked at Jimmy in helpless despair. We knew that in all likelihood, he would either become depressed and his IQ would gradually go down to a dull level, or he would use his brains...