Word: going
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Dropouts, he said, are characterized by a desire to take risks "in order to test their capacities as well as their courage . . . . Some take drugs and go on to escalate dosage and experiment with more dangerous substance . . . . Fast driving and irresponsible sexual behavior are other risk-taking activities engaged in by young people deprived of challenges...
...Blaine was that a large part of student unrest occurs because "the nature of the college population has changed and yet the colleges have not changed to meet the different kinds of needs which this new type of population comes with." The percentage of high school students who go on to college, Blaine pointed out, has jumped from 10 to 55 in the last 15 years. As a result, "fewer students are intellectually curious, scholarly, academic types . . . . More are . . . interested in directly coping with the problems of living...
...streets were crawling with freaks! Painted cars, beads, all the paraphernalia; smiles, laughter, peace signs, camaraderie. Even the March of Death, staggered and otherwise unimpressive at that hour, was vibrating with our kind of people. As Ferlinghetti might say, the air was alive with love. How could anything go wrong...
...disown a part of ourselves. The sight of the Capitol does not make our heart skip a beat anymore, if it ever did. Nixon on television does not frighten us, but only saddens us further. Our communal alienation may also be our hope, but orphans with no place to go may soon become Weathermen...
They that go forth and weep...