Word: aging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...daughter of a Baptist minister, she was raised by a widowed seamstress when the burden of nine children became too much for her father. After a teen-age marriage and divorce, she determined to seek a higher education. She worked her way through all-black Shaw University in Raleigh, N.C., as a dishwasher and laundress, and financed her law studies at the University of Wisconsin with jobs as a library assistant and nurse's aide. In 1952 and 1953 she studied international law at London University...
...forced to ac cept a reduced vision of its importance is Britain, which managed to make the best of it by agreeing with Malcolm Muggeridge that second-rate powers had "great fun." Britain's new devotion to fun produced Europe's most vigorous theater, practically a new age in popular music and a pop scene that has been emulated the world over. By contrast, the French seem hesitant, even fearful about tapping those resources of the imagination and intellect that once struck the rest of the world as being virtually inexhaustible. They have discovered, for the time being...
...age of innocence is moving lower, into junior high schools and occasional grade schools, where youngsters seeking ersatz maturity even gulp codeine-laden cough medicine. (Glue sniffing is expected to decline as word gets out that the largest maker of model-airplane glue is adding sickening mustard fumes to its product's aroma.) Washington's District of Columbia Addiction Center has uncovered pot users as young as eight years...
...with any social habit, all kinds of people use drugs for all kinds of reasons. One obvious age-old drive is the simple impulse to feel good. Like the neolithic men who got high on fermented berries and the Assyrians who sucked opium lozenges, explains Dr. Sidney Cohen of NIMH, a noted drug researcher, today's drug takers "are bored, in pain, frustrated, unable to enjoy, or alienated, and some plant or substance carries with it the promise of oblivion, surcease, quietude, togetherness, or euphoria." Says one Chicago college student who smokes
...heroin. In a scientific age, the scarcity of research knowledge about pot is appalling; nonetheless it is clearly irresponsible to say, as some extreme defenders do, that pot is no more harmful than cherry...