Word: kidded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...youngest daughter of a Baptist minister, Edelman inherited her sense of mission at an early age. "Helping other people, I did it as a kid like other kids go to the movies," she says. "It is what I was raised to be." When segregation laws prevented blacks in her hometown of Bennettsville, S.C., from entering public parks, her father opened a park behind his church. "That taught me, if you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it, one step at a time...
...copycat deaths, says Herbert Nieburg, a psychologist in nearby Westchester County, N.Y., where six boys from the area killed themselves in separate incidents over a four-month period in 1984. The impulse to imitate a suicide can be powerful, especially among adolescents, who tend to romanticize adventure and recklessness. "Kids see that this is a glamorous way to die, a way to get a lot of attention that they couldn't get in life," says Pamela Cantor, president of the National Committee for the Prevention of Youth Suicide. "They see a kid that is a nonentity suddenly get attention...
...Standeven refused to tell this unworthy kid where to get a set of pipes. Remembers Britton: "It took me three years to get my first set." Once he had them, though, he learned quickly and, by the age of 16, had resolved to become a pipemaker himself. That he did, with great success. Like children, bagpipes always belong, in a sense, to those who brought them into the world. Thus, while some of the musicians show off Kennedy's pipes, or Quinn's, about a quarter of those present boast a set of "Timmy's pipes...
Hopefully these tactics will cause our enemies to die or, at the very least, make them sad. Either way, having so many potentially painful and expensive leaden objects in our arsenal is the only thing that allows us as Americans to sleep well at night, even though that kid with the stereo through my firedoor keeps me awake anyway...
...course, even if Mom tries her hardest to raise the perfect post-modern child, it won't work. It can't work, by definition. You can't want your kid to be post-modern--that would be a goal, and no telos is allowed. Besides, even if Junior progresses just as we've described, it will be a linear progression, and post-modernism has already foretold the end of linear thought. But every ending is also a beginning...