Word: children
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...activist thinking spawned in academic isolation. SDS at the time demanded that police--as enforcers of a repressive status quo--be withdrawn from Roxbury. Coles sharply criticized SDS for taking an ideological stance toward an immediate problem, for ignoring the plight of Negroes "whose houses are being gutted, whose children are being killed...
Since 1964, with a foundation grant and an appointment as a research psychiatrist at the Health Services, Coles has been working with the group of parents who first started bussing their children from Roxbury to white schools -- the Boardman Parents Group. He has since extended the study to include other black and white families in Roxbury...
Even though the antihero has no morals, drive-in flicks always do. Ultimately, Jones finds himself surrounded by hostile children, who bring the joke full circle by insisting: "Everybody over ten ought to be put out of business." Everybody would include the operators of American International. That could be the greatest put-on of them...
Witches' Sabbath. What follows is a leisurely lover's lesson on the giving and receiving of pain that makes John Updike's Couples read like a children's bedtime story. Besides incomparable good looks, Yuichi has the aphrodisiac of complete heartlessness going for him. Other people exist only as narcissistic mirrors in whose admiring eyes he enjoys himself. The old novelist gives him speeches on "the joy of being without feeling." He hardly needs them...
...trunk not only with his own notes but also with every newspaper or magazine clipping that might some day serve to make a point. Many of his statistics come from Government reports, and he naturally leans most heavily on the bleakest. Still, some of the citations are deeply disturbing: children under 18 compose 42% of America's poor; the average Negro who finishes high school has a mathematical ability below eighth-grade level and a reading ability not much higher; the President's Council of Economic Advisors estimates that only 22% of America's poor receive...