Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...SEPARATE PEACE, by John Knowles. In this quietly brilliant exploration of adolescence, a youngster makes the discovery that hatred and admiration are mixed in his feelings for his best friend, and that hatred can be tragically stronger...
...school heard from him again this fall, when he sent a letter that began: "In October of the year of our Lord 1958, I began a journey-a long and difficult journey-a journey to glory or death." The letter went on to paint a picture of a youngster so hungry for a U.S. education that he had walked 2,500 miles across Africa to find one. This week Kayira and Skagit will see each other at last...
Poor but Rich. The key to the waste is environment. Comparing opposite ends of the social scale, Dean Horace Mann Bond of Atlanta University reports that "culturally disadvantaged" families produce only one talented youngster for every 235 from "culturally advantaged" families. In affluent suburbs, 25% of all youngsters score 125 or above on IQ tests. In poor neighborhoods, only 6% do so. The reason is partly that IQ tests, though aimed at measuring intelligence rather than learning, necessarily reflect "normal" exposure to books, conversation and even material gadgets. Without such riches, the bright slum kid seems to get dumber...
Among the most violent statements was one issued by Msgr. Joseph A. McCafferey, speaking at the funeral of a 16-year-old girl who had been stabbed to death by another youngster: "What we should do is pass a law by which all known (gang) members be arrested and sent to jail," he said. "I know that there is a cry that there is no room in the jails. . . . Then build more jails. Divert the money from other things, but build them. We cage wild animals. . . . Shall not these boys and girls be caged...
There is a little of the truant in every healthy child. But the openly defiant youngster who simply refuses to go to school may be suffering from what doctors call "school phobia"-a deep-rooted psychological disturbance...