Word: youngsters
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Directors Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady weren't looking for controversy. They just wanted to make a documentary in which they "explored faith through the eyes of a child," as Grady puts it. But their search for that true-believing youngster took them to Becky Fischer ("her name kept coming up") and the summer camp she runs for evangelical children in North Dakota. What they found themselves recording for Jesus Camp were 8- to 10-year-old kids in the throes of religious ecstasy--including talking in tongues--and some unexpected connections between that primitive religiosity and hard-line conservative...
...hardwood that his rushing talent was first suspected, when the coach pushed him to try out for the football squad. Ho had never even heard of the sport before entering the eighth grade, but the youngster tried out nonetheless...
...regular readership. Martel’s articles received what she calls “plenty of sexist comments,” some of which were so extreme Fernandez felt compelled to delete them. Some attack her perceived lack of knowledge—she’s a comparative youngster, after all—or her writing, which is flowery and analogy-rich, in contrast to the “very simple, very pithy” writing she says is common in boxing journalism. Cliff L. Rold, a fellow Ring Talk contributor, appreciates her departure from traditional boxing reporting, calling...
...dream childhood that would handily prepare a bright youngster for the intellectual rigors of life, right? Not really, writes Quart, now 34, in her new book, Hothouse Kids: The Dilemma of the Gifted Child (Penguin Press). "Having been built in the fashion I was as a child - created and then deflated - has left me with a distinct feeling of failure." Quart is unflinchingly honest about her unusual childhood experience. "My father would have bristled at the notion that he was an overbearing puppet master. If I sat absolutely quietly and wrote lyrical verse about tree-tops, I was peachy...
...situated on the couch watching the Giants play. I was not yet three, so I had very little idea as to precisely what was going on, or why helmeted men who rather strongly resembled monsters were violently assaulting one another on television. But regardless, as the precocious, attention-seeking youngster that I was, I saw my window of opportunity and I seized it. Bolting from my hiding place, I ran towards the screen and began yelling, “Football! Football! Yay! Football!” before sprinting from the room as quickly as I had entered while my father...