Word: ager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...question the judge's values without having any clear-cut standards of his own. He is at the testing age. He tests his bravery soloing a plane and his manhood with a prostitute. But the test of his humanity comes when he tries to befriend a fellow teen-ager named Sherman Pew. Sherman is a blue-eyed Negro orphan who was found in a church pew. He is as wary as a porcupine and just about as tactful. In odd moments of disarming color-blind candor, Sherman and Jester are as glowingly close as two lovers...
...away by back-to-books excesses or hot weather. The U.S. juvenile delinquency rate was up 6% last year over 1959, has more than doubled over the last twelve years. In Houston, where there has been little juvenile delinquency in recent years, police report a 30% increase in teen-ager arrests this summer. In San Francisco, recorded illegitimate teen-ager pregnancies are 64% above last year's totals...
...prosecuted in the past year; their weapons ranged from nail-studded boards to soggy garbage and (in a home for delinquent girls) bedpans. On Memorial Day, a mob of 300 set upon 75 cops in a fist-swinging riot at Griffith Park started by a hassle over a teen-ager who had stolen a ride on a merry-go-round. Some weeks later in suburban San Gabriel, when police tried to enforce a ban against dancing after midnight. 300 guests at a wedding party swarmed to the attack with beer cans, whisky bottles, and the remnants of the nuptial feast...
Abraham Gordon, 34, described how Eichmann was personally implicated in beating to death a Jewish teen-ager accused of stealing cherries from an orchard: "The screams lasted about ten or 15 minutes, then stopped. The door opened, and Eichmann came out. He was a little disheveled; his shirt was sticking out, and I am almost sure that I saw bloodstains. I heard Eichmann mutter two words in German, 'Ubriges Mistvolk' [superfluous garbage people]." Minutes later, the "swollen, bloody" corpse of the teen-ager was dragged away...
When television first barged so rudely onto the U.S. entertainment scene, many radio stations flipped the keys shut on their studio mikes, set their turntables to twirling eternally, hired the disk jockey to titillate the teen-ager with pointless prattle. But there are notable signs that the clatter of the platter is gradually being muted. Its replacement: serious chatter...