Word: ager
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...going. Another black homeowner in Scarsdale recalls the night he accidentally set off his own burglar alarm and was afraid to go outside to turn it off. "Some rookie cop might have come to check, seen this soul brother and let fly. Blam! One gone!" A black teen-ager driving an expensive car is far more likely to be halted and quizzed than his white counterpart...
...view of himself, his pretensions and anxieties. Walking into a room of King's sculptures, a visitor is likely to feel he has met them all some place before. And he probably has. Here is a Madison Avenue type in J. Press suit, there a teen-ager in toreadors, over there a gangly businessman on holiday, all legs and knobby knees in Bermuda shorts...
Obviously, one of the obstacles to early detection of heroin addiction in a teen-ager is the unwillingness of middle-or upper-class parents to acknowledge the idea that their son or daughter is seriously hooked on heroin. The customary last resorts in personal crisis are undependable. Parents tend to trust doctors implicitly, for example. But one 17-year-old girl from New York's suburban Westchester County arrived in a New York hospital for a checkup with fresh needle marks all over her arm. "The doctors kidded me about it," she says. "They said, 'Oh, oh, we know what...
...adjustments that every adolescent must endure?the physical and emotional challenges of puberty, the hazard-strewn search for self-discovery ?and any drug can mean danger to all but the most stable. Like alcohol, marijuana may not be risky for a secure adult, but to an anxious teen-ager it offers a seductive release from the hard reality of growing up. His judgment is unformed, and he may all too readily go on to harder drugs...
Dramatic Conversion. First in Boston, then in New York as a teen-ager in the early 1940s, he donned a zoot suit and painfully "conked" his hair. He graduated from show-stopping Lindy Hopper to pimp to taker and pusher of marijuana and dope. Malcolm X's scorn for authority, black or white, 30 years ago, presents remarkable parallels to youthful attitudes today. It was not merely that everyone he knew used marijuana and bitterly resented the white cops who tried to deprive them of it. They also regarded World War II as a white establishment disaster, like Viet...