Word: adults
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...researchers make such a confounded mystery of modern man's deteriorated capacity for interceding in the affairs of his neighbors [July 18]? Any adult over 30 knows most of the answers. The obvious villains are civilization, urbanization and specialization. Since the disappearance of the frontier, we have become a race of emasculated, unarmed, untrained, helpless nonfighters, who live in a "packaged" mass-media dream world and have been brainwashed to leave the dirty work to trained professionals: police, doctors, lawyers, soldiers, firemen, plumbers, etc. We have seen too many heroes and do-gooders get shot, knifed, beaten, insulted, embarrassed...
When a patient has any one of a number of infections, his physician may write on a prescription blank: "Tetracycline, 250 mg. #16. Sig. 1 caps, q.i.d." That dosage of 250 milligrams is standard for any adolescent or adult, whether a 100-lb. girl or a 300-lb. man. Equally standard is the one capsule four times a day for about four days...
According to a recent Gallup poll, 71% of adult Americans approve of sex education in one form or another. Under the concerted conservative attack, the programs are being questioned and even halted in many areas. Notably, boards of education in three California cities have been sued because of sex courses by citizen groups charging invasion of privacy. Legislators in Arizona, California, Iowa, New Jersey, New York and Oklahoma have recently debated the merits of sex-education programs. Last May, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller approved a conservative-backed law withholding state funds from sex education courses...
SOONER OR LATER, someone will term The April Fools the adult analog of The Graduate. Someone probably already has. It is a grossly unfair comparison. Perhaps not as fine a film, dramatically,The April Fools tells a much better tale...
Muller especially wants to get more student subjects for his studies this summer. "The kind of problems a student has in speaking in public are different from the problems an adult has in a working situation." he says, and points out that many students are hampered in their choice of courses and careers by this problem...