Word: kidded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Teaching Man to Children Scene: a fifth-grade classroom in a public school in Newton, Mass. Fresh from seeing a film about baboons, the ten-year-olds are discussing "dominance"-the bane of every kid brother and sister. "I saw some birds eating bread," says a boy in a green shirt, "and this huge crow came along and took the bread because he was bigger than they were." The talk swings to the problem of dominance at the water fountain. "That's the way life is," says a pudgy philosopher. "You're weaker than the older...
...with one who was going to set up her abortion, she split to Oregon for four weeks. And when she showed up again in San Francisco. it was like, too late to get it done because she was about three months into it. She says she'll keep the kid and just carry it on her back when she goes out. She lives over Telegraph Avenue in this place whose hallway everybody uses to shoot up in. There's a little blood on the walls and always people hanging around and passed out there. It's a pretty...
Open admissions programs at universities strike Middle Americans as unfair and illogical violations of the merit system. Beyond that, they see a bias toward blacks in conventional admissions policies. "If anything," says Futurist Herman Kahn, "they believe that a black face helps. A Middle American can't send his kid to Harvard, but he knows the black man down the street can, if the boy is bright enough." Middle American workers frequently feel that blacks are given preferential treatment in job hiring. Says Harvard Psychiatrist Robert Coles, who has made a study of the grievances of Middle America: "They...
...Post. "Hey, man," says Von Hoffman gleefully. "The Today show just called and the Dick Cavett Show wants me. I'm getting famouser, and I can be just as cheap a celebrity as everyone else. Believe me, if I can do it, there isn't a kid in America who can't." And he laughs...