Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most prolific of all travel writers-and Fielding's chief competitor-is Eugene Fodor, who grinds out a fat Guide to Europe and individual guidebooks to 17 nations every year. Unlike Fielding, his books cover the full range of tourism, from historical background to such practical tips as how to kick a hangover in Paris (drink Fernet-Branca) and how to gamble in casinos (for the best odds, play trente et quarante). Trouble is, Fodor leaves the actual writing and research of his books to a staff of 100 contributors, and the results are wildly uneven. He is good...
Under this system, children at the age of eleven or twelve are separated into those who are potentially college stuff and those-mostly of working-class backgrounds-who will end up in vocational and technical high schools. The 34% of U.S. college students who are children of laborers, and the 17% of Russians, are matched by only 7.5% in Germany and 12.6% in France. What Europe needs, in effect, says Poignant, is an American-style high school system, with all students in the same kind of school through the age of 16 or 18. Then the slugging match to enter...
...lots of the teen-age hippies swinging to Franky Valley's rock-'n'-roll hit think. Last week a group of psychologists and educators gathered at the San Francisco Medical Center to discuss how teen-age marriages fare. The background statistics were chilling in themselves: 40% of today's brides are between the ages of 15 and 18; within five years, half of teen-age marriages end in divorce...
...Vietnamese war has become so complex that a critical understanding of the situation and its possible solutions is impossible without extensive research. Jean Lacouture's book, Vietnam: Between Two Truces, crams most of the vital background information into a single volume...
Navel Glories. Charged with homicide, Kessler was sent for psychiatric investigation to Kings County Hospital. But even before the medical reports were in, his background became known. He was a Harvard undergraduate in 1952-57, too early to hear Psychologist Timothy Leary expounding the beauties of LSD and winning converts to his cult. Unsure what to do for a while after graduation, Kessler considered the law and did well in qualifying exams, but eventually turned to medicine and became a student at New York's Downstate Medical Center. Because of personality difficulties, he withdrew last November. Kessler experimented with...