Word: boys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world," he said, "even when I'm joking." The son of a German immigrant who believed in Prussian discipline, Mankiewicz was ceaselessly downgraded by his father. The old man, a professor of languages, seemed jealous and resentful of Herman's precocity. Early on, the boy became convinced that he was a failure and spent the rest of his life trying to prove himself right...
...Required meeting of Freshman eligible for Sophomore Standing, Science Center B. Boy, will this make you fell superior...
...loops two half hitches around a stake on the bank. Phuoc, who has picked up English in the three years he has been in the U.S., translates for his uncle as a white-haired mechanic explains the problem with the carburetor. "How much we owe you?" asks the boy. The mechanic shakes his head, refusing payment. Like many others, he is embarrassed by the way the Vietnamese refugees are being chased out of the parish...
...British upper-class males," one source told Gathorne-Hardy, "were homosexual in everything but their sex lives." If true, small wonder. Adolescent boys cut off from all outside contacts and jumbled together night and day will become unusually aware of each other. Clandestine activities leave few traces. Reviewing what facts there are, the author guesses that the percentage of public school boys who actually engaged in homosexual acts was no greater than in the young male population at large. But many scholars fell into Platonic love affairs with each other that haunted them all their lives. A pattern of boy...
...when Olivia was nine, she was raped by three girls and a boy with a beer bottle on a San Francisco beach. Just four days earlier, NBC-TV had aired a movie called Born Innocent, which depicted four female inmates of a detention home raping a teen-age girl with a "plumber's helper." Arguing that NBC should be held responsible for causing Olivia's rape, Lewis slapped the network and its San Francisco affiliate, KRON-TV, with an $11 million suit on Olivia's behalf...