Word: ager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...peaceful pleasures that he found in the areas where they work. "Fishermen drop their lines in the ponds at Pine Bluff Arsenal. At Tooele, the day I was there, thousands of school kids were paying Armed Forces Day visits. There was only one 'incident': a bright teen-ager managed to start up a tank...
...morning." Ginott does not flatly condemn premarital intercourse, but simply pleads that parents provide their children with some sense of the psychology of sexual awakening as well as the basic biological facts. Children who ask their parents for contraceptives should be turned down, he insists, since the teen-ager is showing "a lack of readiness for adulthood. An adult makes his own decisions and accepts the consequences...
Baby Love is a tacky little enterprise about a scheming English teen-ager named Luci (Linda Hayden). An unhappy and uninteresting hybrid of Lilith and Lolita, Luci is first seen putting on an exhibition of osculation for her delighted classmates, and things deteriorate-rather rapidly-from there. She comes home from school one day to discover that Mum (Diana Dors) has done herself in. Luci goes off to stay with one of Mum's old lovers (Keith Barren), a successful doctor whose opulent standard of living suggests that socialized medicine in Britain has not put much of a dent...
...teen-ager used to be that nice adolescent next door, witness Sheila James in the Stu Erwin Show, Billy Gray in Father Knows Best, and Tony Dow in Leave It to Beaver. The neo-Penrod type was stereotyped by Ricky Nelson, who grew into and out of adolescence before the entire nation on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet...
...very high stakes, suffers for his convictions or fights to the death. Caring is slight." The book became a bestseller and basic reading for introductory social-science courses; it is still in print. Though the work broke no theoretical ground, Margaret Mead's conclusion that the Samoan teen-ager was calm and free from trauma provided solid proof that "adolescence is not necessarily a specially difficult period in a girl's life" and, by extension, that so-called "human nature" is almost infinitely plastic...