Word: dropout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Insulated by an ever-lengthening edu cational process from the instant adult hood they seek, pressed by modern change and technology into a precocious appreciation - often misguided -of the world they face, they are amazingly resilient. Job Corps Sociologist David Gottlieb, 36, who was himself a dropout, finds in the Now People "a certain fidelity and loyalty that older people don't have." American G.I.s in South Viet Nam, for example, evince little envy or disapproval of their draft-exempt brothers-on-campus at home, despite student protests against their sacrifice. "This is an experience...
Both sensitive and sophisticated, it epitomizes more than any previous generation the definition of talent by Harvard Dropout Henry James as "the art of being completely whatever it was that one happened to be." Yet it is by no means a faceless generation...
...Pravda this month published an unusually candid article by Russian Education Minister Mikhail Prokofiev, who charged that the vast Soviet school system is not only seriously deficient in science and math teaching, but is mired in a rigid "bookism" that makes learning a bore and produces an alarming dropout rate...
...result, says Prokofiev, is that many students are convinced "that they are not receiving any profound and lasting education. They want to quit." The dropout rate has reached the point where 30% of the pupils who enter first grade do not finish eighth. In some regions, half of those who finish eighth grade fail to enter the two-year high schools. And of those who finish high school, only 20% are interested enough to go on to universities and the professional institutes...
...Neil Simon's idea of Paradise. The eternal female drives his characters nuts. In The Odd Couple, a pair of poker-playing middle-agers fled their wives to room together in bachelor bliss. In The Star-Spangled Girl, a pair of post-Ivy League rebels share a dropout of an apartment with penurious satisfaction until a girl who looks like a whipped-cream frappé shows up to curdle their...