Word: boys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seven years every other little black boy in the first grade will be named Kunta...
...couple of legalities removed from a used car salesman. He has neither taste nor an eye for sharp clothes; his favorite seems to be a terry-cloth jumpsuit. And where the old racketeers had bodyguards with pug noses and club-steak ears, this fellow hires a turtleneck-wearing glamour boy (John Considine) who might just as well be Lyle Waggoner. What's more, these contemporary villains have lost all sense of decorum. They try to impress by breaking coke bottles across their mistresses' faces (the gangster in The Long Goodbye) or they think that to frisk...
Juvenile delinquents have been with us for a long time. Horatio Alger romanticized them in books like Ragged Dick, written nearly one hundred years ago. And Henry James, looking at Boston in 1904, complained of "School-bullies who hustle and pummel some studious little boy." To James, the presence of these street urchins was a sure sign that his beloved Boston was on the way down. Today the school-bullies are still a problem, but the method of dealing with them--at least in Massachusetts--has undergone radical change. Ever since the last Massachusetts training school closed...
...precocious, negative 14-year-old--a big, tough kid," Calhoun recalled. "He locked two nine-year-olds in a refrigerator and killed them, then knifed another kid. He wasn't schizophrenic--just a malicious character with violent tendencies." Calhoun said the boy was now serving a sentence at Concord. "In a couple of quirky cases," Calhoun said, "the kid's definition of manhood is Walpole...
...trying to prevent delinquency before it occurs," Detective Ed Loder, who acts as the Cambridge Police Liaison with NYPUM, says. Loder explained that each boy or girl (girls comprise one-quarter of the program) is given two hours' riding time each week, and a two-hour a week group meeting. During the summer and school vacations, the young people make a field trip to Camp Edwards, Massachusetts, where they can experience trail riding...