Word: ager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are other signs that the costume look may get out of hand. Sculptress Marisol finds the speed with which costumes change puzzling and hard to keep up with. Ex-Model Wilhelmina worries because "I want to be a lady in the long run, not a teen-ager." Alexander's high-powered Fashion Director Francine Farkas, who is responsible for the store's considerable success in selling young people on the new way of dressing, nevertheless thinks that it can lead to "uniformed individuality," meaning that the combination of wide-legged pants, vests and chains has been overworked...
...exercise in social action (only 9,000 corpsmen now serve abroad) is unlikely to supply the demand for activists. There are other sources in U.S. institutions-families, schools, colleges, corporations. All ought to be doing more to spur individual initiative. A case could be made for pitting every teen-ager against physical hardships that build self-confidence, as in t country's several Outward Bound camps, which put boys through summer survival courses. If draft laws are ever changed, dropping out for useful social action would do wonders for jaded collegians. If more U.S. corporations imitated the smartest ones...
...Mamma's neuroses and ailments. When parents and children stay together too long, the relationship slips into reverse. Edging toward middle age Rachel becomes an adolescent. She seeks solace in masturbation, the first refuge of the child, the last hiding place of the isolated. Like a teen-ager making tentative explorations, she writhes with a suffocating guilt and murmurs to herself, "It's just to make me sleep...
...MEMORANDUM. Joseph Papp's latest production is a harrowing parable on the perils of conformity and cowardice. Czech Playwright Vaclav Havel has written a nonsensical narrative about an office man ager who delivers himself into the clutches of bureaucracy when an official language is introduced into his firm...
...vast reach and visual impact, is in a sense the germ carrier that spreads the plague of riots across the U.S. The question, in short, is whether the sight of a Harlem youth hurling a brick through a store window and shouting "Black Power!" induces a ghetto teen ager in Detroit to do the same...