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...Done the Homework...
...Rather than offering escape, teen-feel songs invariably wallow in melancholy, trying to touch nerve ends with anything from the merely silly to the downright psychotic. The teen-age girl, as described by her taste in music, is above all a martyr-to broken dates, homework, high school-a St. Joan of the Jukebox yearning for weak heroes with weaker ideas. Dion, a pathetically undernourished singer with a pleading little voice, is among her favorites now. and his songs have titles like The Loneliest Man in the World and Unloved, Unwanted Me. Joan Baez (TIME cover...
What seems to irritate many critics most about President Kennedy is that he is a charming, voluble, intelligent talker who has done his homework on most topics and is therefore successful in presenting his views, dammit. Without doubt, the whole Kennedy Administration has worked harder than almost any of its predecessors to persuade reporters of the desirability and eventual success of its policies...
Once upon a time, the children said good night to their parents and went to bed; nowadays, often enough, the parents say good night to the children and go to bed, leaving the young scholars to finish their endless homework some time before dawn. If the American student could be fitted out with a pressure gauge, the needle would be trembling at a high figure. One man who has thought a lot about the pressure is John D. Black, 44, director of Stanford University's counseling service and an associate professor of psychology. In recent speeches and writings...
...Services Committee, read almost all of a 198-page statement and answered Congressmen's questions in a style that often made them feel, quite helplessly, as though they were interrogating a computer. Congressmen certainly knew that they were in the presence of a man who had done his homework. Whether or not his answers prove to be the right ones, they were delivered with remarkable candor...