Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crime index. Obviously, the shrinking value of the dollar changes the meaning of those figures; partly as a result, larceny has been the fastest-growing category on the crime index recently. Another example: for as long as anyone has kept track, youths from the mid-teens to early 20s have committed the largest number of offenses in all categories. During the '60s, the post-World War II baby crop came of criminal age. The fact that there are proportionately more Negroes than whites in the age group 15 to 24 explains at least in small part the higher arrest...
Dostoevsky, the pride of world literature, could not at one time be published in our country (even today he is not published in full). There were the writers of the '20s who at a very early stage denounced the birth of the personality cult and the characteristic traits of Stalin. But they were annihilated, they were stifled, instead of being listened to. Literature cannot develop between the categories "permitted" and "not permitted." Literature that does not breathe the same air as contemporary society, that cannot communicate to it its pains and fears, that cannot give warning in time against...
Foremost in the Maoist junior league are the two daughters of Mao's wife Chiang Ching, the most strident voice in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Hsiao Li, in her late 20s, gained prominence a year ago when she led a Red Guard "investigation team" at Peking University. In the acid-tongued tradition of her mother, Hsiao Li described her alma mater as a "stale pond in which many wang-pa* grow." She is now chief of the editorial committee of the Liberation Army Daily, and the regime has confirmed her importance by listing her among "leading comrades...
...about 10,000 demonstrators showed up, a fraction of the horde that had been predicted by their leaders. According to Chicago police records, 49% of the 650 arrested came from outside Illinois (most from New York and Michigan); the majority were in their teens and 20s and only 91 prisoners were 30 or above...
Flip of the Coin. He found other liberal causes in the '20s-a turn as national publicity director for Robert La Follette's 1924 Progressive Party presidential candidacy, a scholarly and sympathetic history of Mexico, an angry expose of private utility companies' propaganda (The Public Pays) that began a long career of defending public power programs. Later, when F.D.R. came to power, Gruening was appointed to the 1933 Inter-American Conference at Montevideo and helped hammer out the New Deal's Good Neighbor policy. The following year, Roosevelt appointed him to head the Interior Department...