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...history tutorial, we were debating whether one could have a truly comprehensive understanding of what life in America was like during the 1960s. And it was on this subject that my tutorial leader started raving about Tom Wolfe and his 1968 book, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. My TF insisted that reading Wolfe's account of the hippie era was and still is the best way to really get a sense of what the 1960s were like; other historical sources paled in comparison. The book was the best source by far. Tom Wolfe was just that good...
...menstruation, had already fallen dramatically (from 17 to about 13) between the middle of the 19th century to the middle of the 20th--mostly owing to improvements in nutrition. (Menstruation is considered the technical start of puberty; the outward signs of sexual maturity usually come earlier.) But since the 1960s, average age of first menstruation has basically remained steady at 12.8 years. For African Americans, it's currently about six months earlier, possibly reflecting genetic or nutritional differences...
...study couldn't accurately gauge, for example, how much the average age of onset of breast development (as opposed to menstruation) has dropped or over what period. That's because a key piece of research that helped set the standard age at 11 was a small study in the 1960s of white girls raised in English orphanages. But Dr. John Dallas, a pediatric endocrinologist with the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, points out that the British girls may have been poorly nourished--a factor known to delay puberty. African- American girls were studied even less rigorously...
Coles approaches this project in an earnest but informal manner, drawing larger conclusions out of each encounter. As part of a group of doctors working to raise awareness about child malnutrition in the American South in the late 1960s, Coles had the chance to work with and observe Kennedy, the senator from New York, Robert F. Kennedy '48. What impressed Coles so much about Kennedy was not just his genuine interest and concern for the issue, but his determination to be both politically pragmatic and morally just. There are also chapters covering a wide variety of efforts and lives...
Bornstein, a former Yale student and "hippie boy" of the 1960s, said she rejects traditional conceptions of gender and other conventions, equating them to the rigidity of a "leather-bound dictionary...