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This was followed by Rhapsody in candlelight--"a little piece I wrote myself," and The Beer barrel Polka-"I used to play this in Milwaukee saloons." Softly tittering figures skittered up the aisles to snap a picture. One teen-ager ducked under an usher's arm and squirmed breathlessly to the edge of the stage." "I see you baby," Libby called...
...that most British of responses: a joint letter of protest to the editor of the London Times. "It would be disastrous to English literature," they wrote, "if authors had to write under the shadow of the Old Bailey if they failed to produce works suitable for the teen-ager...
...that some mothers of teenagers do not get up to get breakfasts for their children [TiME, July 19]; but why blame mother entirely? A teen-ager should begin to take on some responsibility of adulthood. He or she . . . has as much time as anyone else-exactly 24 hours a day . . . My nine-year-old can already cook an egg (boiled or fried), make a piece of toast, squeeze an orange and pour a glass of milk...
...diagnosis made more than 300 years ago. To illustrate a TV talk about bone disorders, they used a reproduction of José Ribera's masterpiece (original in the Louvre) titled Boy with a Clubfoot. The closer they looked, the more clearly they saw that the bright-faced teen-ager also had a deformed right hand. The canvas, they concluded, should be retitled: Boy with Cerebral Palsy...
There are, however, some pleasanter pictures of the beings who dwell in this lost country. The Dalai Lama, aged 16 when this film was made, looks pretty much like any other teen-ager dressed up for a masquerade. The common people seem better than their betters. As they stir their hot-buttered tea or plow the skyey pastures with their dolorous yaks, or swarm to Lhasa for their pageants, their faces are warm with the comfortable joy of creatures at home in their world...