Word: kidded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wanted to see the world while I'm still young and impressionable," he explains, "before prejudices have a chance to harden. I wanted to be on my own completely, for once in my life, and-I don't know-I guess I wanted to prove a kid could still...
Alms & the Man. This kid could Armed with $600 in traveler's checks and a beguiling blend of corn and con ("I'm a beggar seeking alms of knowledge, and people have to help me"), he flew to Europe, took a two-month motor-scooter tour of Britain and the Continent and parlayed a school first-aid course into a job as hospital attendant on a U.S. freighter leaving Genoa for Hong Kong. In Saigon, dauntless Dwight flashed a letter from the Providence Journal promising to consider publishing any dispatches he might send home-and was accredited...
...lectures to hear what he had to say, not how he said it, and they came in greater numbers than to any other upper-class course-some 400 a semester. Where the faculty was concerned, his popularity was less universal. To many of his colleagues, he was "an uppity kid." Says a friend: "He grasps things too quickly for his own good...
...Every Kid a Genius. Despite his success, Newcomer is a chronic worrier who frets about the future of his schools, sometimes goes home and sips three bourbons and water to relax-then frets about having taken three drinks. He worries about integrating his schools, so far partly accomplished by bussing Negroes to junior high and high school. He once strode into a TV studio to interrupt an education speech by Governor Grant Sawyer, accused .him of "irresponsible leadership" in bucking most educational problems to the rural-dominated legislature. When an official of the Nevada Taxpayers Association called Newcomer...
...most people in Nevada deeply respect Newcomer's educational philosophy. "There isn't a kid in the world who isn't a genius or a near genius in some things, or a moron in others," he says. The schools, says Newcomer, must "find ways to analyze each child in terms of his uniqueness as a human being...