Word: ager
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...became his executive secretary. Jordan describes himself as a late-blooming progressive. A cousin founded Koinonia (Greek for fellowship or communion), a biracial farm in southwestern Georgia that deeply offended Ku Klux Klan members and other white racists in the 1940s. Even so, Jordan as a teen-ager opposed the black civil rights movement, only to change his mind a few years later...
...teen-ager looking for a job when Comedian George Burns signed her up for his Las Vegas night club act back in 1960. But Ann-Margret developed fast. After opening some eyes with her singing and dancing, she left Las Vegas after an eleven-day run and set out to become an actress. Last week the pair met again at Burns' Beverly Hills home to toast their most recent successes: George's Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Sunshine Boys, Ann-Margret's as Best Actress for her part in Tommy...
None of this means that joblessness can be callously dismissed as a minor problem. Many inflation-pressed families need the second income that an employed woman or teen-ager could earn...
Moreover, warns Eckstein, if a nation frustrates the ambitions of large numbers of people to work, "you destroy social cohesion." The black who wants to hold a steady job, the woman who wants to use her training and talents outside the home, the teen-ager who longs to start supporting himself, could, with some justice, feel bitter against an economic system that confines them to, at best, in-and-out roles in the labor market...
...disgusting that it will make any decent, clean, healthy person want to throw up," he declares. Why then did he spend 41 years collecting and writing the text that accompanies these Augean sweepings of the human psyche? Legman tells us that he began his harvest as a teen-ager in Scranton, Pa., where he was born in 1918. "I got myself in the habit," he recalls, "to top my own father, a notable teller of tales." The psychoanalytically inclined may draw their own conclusions. But it is fairly clear that Legman enjoys a magnificent case of outraged moralism...