Word: girls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...frustrations of living with so many people are the friendships we make, the catalogues tell us. The conservative from Minnesota exchanges views with the communist from New York.... Actually the conservative from Minnesota is hating the communist from New York for taking her hair curlers. Usually girls band together in groups of four or five that eat together and try to ignore everyone else, but things are fluid enough so that everyone has some casual friendships (casual in the sense of chance). Few are aware of it, but it is these casual friendships that are one of the millstones around...
...Every Girl Is Put in Her Place
...Cliffie to tell you what type of girl goes to her school. and she will back away nervously, stammering "individuality... no stereotypes whatever... leave me alone." and things like that. The poor girl is afraid you are trying to squeeze her and her friends into a single mold: the stringy brunette mold perhaps, or worse, the intense, amoral. Bohemian mold. Life. Holiday, the New York Times. Sports Illustrated, and Leonic St. John became her eternal enemies as soon as they suggested one-word summaries...
...They are cordial to the point of exuberance, sometimes to the point of bedlam. If male, they could be shouting at football games: as it is, they can discuss a hockey game vivaciously throughout a dinner. When asked what adjective they would use if they wanted to give another girl the highest compliment possible, they unanimously answer "charming" or "feminine...
Chocolate friendships and romances are both casually groupy. One girl may have two or three close friends who are not necessarily friends with each other. Cliques are not firm or obvious. Similarly, these girls often date many boys without being serious about any. Sometimes, however, a chocolate girl has few or no friendships and she spends most of her waking life on schoolwork...