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Word: adults (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...present state of the American proletariat is such that one cannot hope for many more adult recruits. But their children in the high schools have been exposed however superficially to the strains of the hippie culture and will not grow up the same. They will be the nourishment of any radical movement of the future...

Author: By Salahuddin I. Imam, | Title: A Radical Vision | 10/15/1968 | See Source »

...irrational solutions to our current social problems so prevalent among the American electorate this year is nowhere greater than in the supporters of Wallace. It makes me shudder to think that a politician with his lack of originality could draw such a sizable following. Or perhaps 13.5 million adult Americans can't be wrong. Perhaps, as I enter the voting booth this November, I should close my eyes tightly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 11, 1968 | 10/11/1968 | See Source »

...triumph over adversity, as Nat Hentoff programs it in I'm Really Dragged but Nothing Gets Me Down, is going from resentment to resistance. The book is an attempt to put a little chest hair on that artificial category of literature known as "young-adult novels." Hentoff injects such themes as Viet Nam, racism, generation gap, civil rights, drugs, black rage, white guilt and, for old times' sake, a touch of antiSemitism. Sex is still a nono, although the vocabulary is raunched up with such words as "bastard," "damn it," and "hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: From Rags to Rages | 10/11/1968 | See Source »

...there in T.V. land, although kids may talk about rejecting the rotten establishment, although we may call adult values hypocritical, well we really don't mean it at all. In truth we're just just spoiled brats, anti-everythings rejecting for rejecting's sake, obnoxious for the nuisance value of it. Just give us the old boot in the arse and we'll understand. It's what we deserve after...

Author: By Jay Cantor, | Title: Mod Squad | 10/8/1968 | See Source »

...lesser success is Singer-Songwriter Ray Stevens' Mr. Businessman, which declares in part: "Eighty-six proof anesthetic crutches brought you to the top/Where the smiles are all synthetic and the ulcers never stop." The market may consist either of middle-class youngsters who are put off by the adult world or middle-class adults who enjoy casting their neighbors in the songs; most likely it is both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recordings: The Anti-Middle-Class Market | 10/4/1968 | See Source »

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