Word: lad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Boys Town, founded in 1917 by Father Edward Flanagan and celebrated in film and folklore, still beckons homeless boys to its 1,500-acre campus just outside Omaha. The statue of a tattered waif, a smaller lad slung over his shoulder, still stands at the entrance with the legend: "He ain't heavy, Father. He's m' brother." Otherwise, Boys Town is a community rocked by change...
...years ago, such an incident would have been considered eccentric and tragic. Today the list multiplies: a four-year-old Indianapolis boy was mauled to death in January; a six-year-old Long Island boy met a similar fate in April; in July a three-year-old Bronx lad was mauled. The question now is: Has the breed degenerated...
...seems extraordinary enough to match many of the stories that surround the forging of America's great men. In 1904 Douglas' minister father died after having moved the family to a tiny wilderness parish in the state of Washington. At the graveside, the grieving five-year-old lad felt drawn to the towering Mount Adams-"a friend, a force for me to tie to, a symbol of stability and strength." Afflicted with puny legs as a result of polio, he resolutely hiked and climbed until he had built up his limbs-and a lifelong commitment to the environment...
...parentage and prospects are in doubt. Coached by a wise old tutor, however, the lad performs a trick involving a stubborn, sacred stone; the feat indicates future greatness. Then he goes on to subdue rival warlords, bringing his people unity and peace...
...youth, a play that is a dramatic refugee from the 1950s. EXcept that here the characters are black and the setting is the Detroit ghetto. The bad influence arrives in the form of Rico, a wonderfully reptilian pimp who means to apprentice Steve to his trade by having the lad peddle Mae in the streets. Will Steve choose the life of vice? Will he break his old mother's heart, not to mention...