Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...older, you think better-up to the age of 22, that is. If you're a jerk at 22, you're always going to be stupid. If you're a genius, somewhere at 22 it's there...
...spend weekends traveling the campus circuits and seven days a week fighting the notion that they are spokesmen for their age group. "Nobody is talking for this generation," says Simon. "Nobody says, 'If you want to know what I think talk to Simon & Garfunkel.' Everybody has got his own ideas. I don't consider myself a poet. I'm a songwriter. I'm not interested in puzzling people for the sake of puzzlement. I like what I say to be heard and understood...
Speed Reading. During recreation hours, members of the student crew-who range in age from 21 to 28, have about the same physical and psychological qualifications required for astronauts-go to extreme lengths to avoid boredom. They have practiced script-lettering and speed reading (one has progressed from 350 words to 4,400 words per minute), passed questionnaires and notes in bottles to the experiment team outside, and performed trumpet and harmonica duets...
...form of pressed bricks, called "keys" (for kilos), weighing 2.2 lbs. Connoisseurs strain out the coarse stalks before rolling it into cigarettes or packing it loosely into long-stemmed, cooler-smoking pipes. For $5, anyone almost anywhere can buy enough through his office boy or teen-age offspring to make six cigarettes...
...comparison with King and other outspoken Southern pastors, the majority of Northern clergy have been much more passive in the struggle for equality-and have allowed the movement to fall into militant secular hands. Like many white churches, Negro congregations have found themselves alienated from skeptical youth-and teen-age looters in the recent riots were clearly not guided by obedience to the Ten Commandments. "They don't hear you when you say, Thou shalt not kill,'" admits the Rev. Clyde Williams of Atlanta. "They say, 'We've tried love and that didn...