Word: agers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Teenagers" [Jan. 29] was delightful reading. To attempt a coherent account with subjects so elusive and mercurial is indeed a formidable assignment and one handled, I think, with great competence. I was glad to note your observation that "the key word is educated," because today's teen-ager is the product of his educational system. Lois V. EDINGER President...
They Know More. Caltech President Lee DuBridge believes that "there is no question that today's teen-ager coming to one of the major colleges is better educated and more seriously motivated than ever before." Profiting by a vast improvement in teaching methods, curriculums and equipment, "our children know more about things than we did," says New World Foundation Consultant Frank G. Jennings. Ellsworth Tompkins, executive secretary of the National Education Association's 30,000 secondary school principals, holds that "over the past seven or eight years we have experienced in the schools the most important developments since...
...result, according to University of California Sociologist Edgar Z. Friedenberg, is "the vanishing adolescent"-made to mature earlier, yet in many ways still engagingly immature. And since "part of the American dream is to live long and die young," many adults ambivalently relish and resent the teen-ager's freedom and spontaneity. "Our whole culture believes less in authority," snaps a Detroit priest. "Yet the teen-ager is the only one criticized for not recognizing...
Combining the latest in technology and content, foreign-language study has grown and improved. Since 1958, when U.S. public schools conducted 46 language labs, the number has soared to 7,000. Instead of memorizing vocabulary lists and grammatical rules, the student teen-ager puts on headphones, listens to tapes, and gets a result almost unheard of in earlier decades of high school instruction: he speaks and understands the language...
Happiness into Hatred. In Hersey's scheme, two centuries collapse into a decade, roughly coinciding with the '20s. Imperial China conquers the U.S., and the yellow hordes shanghai whole populations to the Asian mainland. The heroine, a teen-ager in Arizona, is seized by whitebirders and transported to Peking, where she is sold to a high official and assigned to his wife as a body slave...