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...true that we are on the "fringe of a golden era in education," but is it really worth it if the people produced during such an era are like the pseudo-intellectual morons that you interviewed-such as the jerk who wants to make a more meaningful person out of his mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 5, 1965 | 2/5/1965 | See Source »

Dancing the Jerk. Drinking is common enough among Pali students, and the important thing is style. "It's all right to get blasted, if you can be witty or brave," says Larry Futterman, 17, "but if you get sloppy, you're way out." Glue-sniffing and marijuana are also out, because they bring on major trouble from the cops. Illicit sex is discussed more intensely than it is practiced, but even the talk is becoming boring since it involves a responsibility wary Pali teen-agers are not willing to accept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Students: On the Fringe of a Golden Era | 1/29/1965 | See Source »

...going to talk about sex, are we?" says a blond kid in horn-rims, yawning. The latest dance is the jerk: partners face each other three feet apart, then languorously sway their upper spine and arms while rhythmically punctuating the undulations with a savage pelvic thrust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Students: On the Fringe of a Golden Era | 1/29/1965 | See Source »

...chariot is armed with bladed hub caps that telescopically extend to chew up the rubber of an overtaking vehicle. And if the driver should decide to ditch an obstreperous passenger, he need only press a button: the roof glides back and the jump seat violently ejects the jerk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Knocking Off Fort Knox | 12/18/1964 | See Source »

...must move-forward, toward freedom and progress." To accomplish this, he said, price supports must go, but only after "something better has been developed that can gradually be substituted for it." Just what that something better might be, Goldwater did not specify, but he did promise: "I will never jerk the rug from under the American farmer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Issues: Backdown on the Farm | 10/30/1964 | See Source »

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