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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...filled with an organized ethical system, there intervenes a period in which conduct of any sort passes unchecked and uncensured. To add to this, the student is encouraged to question critically all of his ideas and assumptions, initially an extremely destructive process. He sees himself as not yet fully adult, and hence not responsible for his actions in any sense that could be termed permanent, much less eternal...
Indifferent Family. According to the Gluecks, it is no harder to spot delinquents long before they erupt (usually at about eight) than it is to tell which adult offenders will be repeaters. The Gluecks are not theorizing. Already their tables have been matched against the actual later behavior of some 2,000 delinquents, found to be 90% effective by the New York City Youth Board and other agencies...
These days, during the show's Boston tryout, the entire adult company of The Miracle Worker treats Patty as their professional peer. They hardly remember her age until, at her mother's insistence, she knocks off like a good little girl for her afternoon...
...monographs on the mud turtle, or the academic jargon of cloistered professors, the presses have become favorites of U.S. readers. This year the 50 members of the Association of American University Presses will produce 1,300 new books on subjects ranging from art to zoology. In their own field-adult, hardcover nonfiction-universities will account for one out of every four original books in the U.S. and sell them for about $14 million, more than double their income of ten years...
...delinquents had been less than eight years old when marked signs of their antisocial tendencies first became evident, and nine-tenths of the 500 had manifested these tendencies before reaching 11 years of age. This new knowledge, coupled with the previous discovery that about 75 per cent of adult offenders had been juvenile delinquents, made it clear that community effort should be directed toward very young children, those less than seven years old, if juvenile delinquency is to be reduced significantly...