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...Booth Tarkington were to write Seventeen today," says a Connecticut high school English teacher, "he'd have to call it Twelve." Sociologist Reuel Denney notes with fascination the shopping list of a twelve-year-old suburban girl: "Water pistol, brassiere, permanent." When a 16-year-old Louisville boy, as a practical joke, gravely announced at dinner that his girl friend was pregnant, the first reaction of the stunned family came from the boy's younger brother, 13. "My God," he said. "You'll lose your allowance...
Chief and most unbelievable charac ter in this self-proclaimed "novel of the new American revolution" is Arkansas Representative Timotheus Denney, who is cast as the legislative wizard and bourbon-breathing Grand Dragon of all the sheetless Klansmen on Capitol Hill. This Ozark Ozymandias wants the Government to build him a $2 billion Denney Dam back in Yell County, Ark. But he faces an ironic choice: the dam will be voted out of committee only if Denney pledges support for a civil rights bill. Never, he yells, and threatens to touch off race war if the dam doesn...
...more decision than ever-and produce "wiser" students than ever. Their seeming "overcautiousness" is mostly a matter of thinking twice about everything in a time that demands it. "Modern American young people seem to walk on eggs more than any other generation in the 20th century," writes Sociologist Reuel Denney of the University of Chicago in Daedalus. "Their talent for the 'delayed reflex' may prove to be one of our main resources in the coming culture and politics of the nuclear...
...automobile as a badge of success is fading out," says Chicago Sociologist Reuel Denney. "Too many people are wearing the badge, and it doesn't mean anything any more. The buyer also has the feeling that he's not getting enough out of it because of this obsolescence in styling. There's not enough rarity and not enough enjoyment...
...back-thumping campaign (TIME, Aug. 8) were key factors in the size of his victory. But there was a national issue involved: falling prices on the farm. Chandler hit hard at U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson's farm program, crying: "Why, if you elect this fellow [Denney] this fall next year he'll be helping Benson and those fellows up there." In rural Kentucky, there was a marked shift to the Democratic side from the 1954 congressional election, e.g., in west Kentucky's Hopkins County (tobacco), the Democrats gained 1,174 votes and the Republicans...