Word: developed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aware of this power, shrewd corporations work hard to develop teen-age loyalties, catering to teen-age fads and fashions, talking their language and stressing youth in their advertising. Teen-agers may never take over the country, but the thought must occasionally occur To them. They now make up 12.% of the U.S. population, but because of high postwar birth rates, within five years they will constitute 20%. By that time, teen-agers will have a direct annual spending power of about $21 billion a year...
That note of despair is the fundamental emotion of the existentialism Sartre was to develop, where God is banished, man is totally responsible for what he does with himself and society, and therefore gets on earth the hell he deserves. Thus man is absurd, but he must grimly act as if he were not. The books and controversies were yet to come; but at the end of this confession, filled with self-loathing though incapable of self-pity, Sartre dryly admits: "For a long time, I took my pen for a sword; I now know we're powerless...
Despite the huge time lag which may develop--he was three hours late by the end of his New England tour--the President insists upon stopping wherever there is a substantial number of people to shake hands. He reaches one hand over the other in order to shake the largest number possible. By the end of his New England trip, both the President's hands were bleeding--and they had been treated several times during the day. The unbounded enthusiasm of the crowd means that they will even claw the President's hand, if only they can get close enough...
...Business School has received $400,000 over two years for a program to develop business-management talent in six Central American states. About six B-School faculty members spent the summer in Central America, most of them at an "advanced management institute" in Guatemala...
...team's offense is punch-poor. Munro will hope to develop a balanced attack this season, which was obviously impossible with a super-star like Ohiri on the team. A few front-liners remain from last year's squad, including center Keith Chiappa, Hugh Polk at inside left and Fred Akuffo at inside right. They too should receive considerable support from sophomores. Inside left Akinlabi Adewole and Charlie Njoku, Ohiri's cousin, look particularly promising...