Word: maynard
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Growing Cynicism. Governors and mayors are having to contend with a growing suspicion of politicians and cynicism about government. In Atlanta, a supporter of Democratic Mayoral Candidate Maynard Jackson exclaimed: "These days a politician is about three cuts below a used-car salesman." Says Ohio Governor John Gilligan: "I don't visit a town that the question isn't asked, 'Why do all you politicians turn out to be crooks?' " Gilligan cites that attitude to explain why less than 20% of Toledo's voters went to the polls in the recent municipal election, compared with...
...Joyce Maynard, the author of Look ing Back: A Chronicle of Growing Up Old in the Sixties, fully agrees. When she was a freshman at Yale and had to share her dormitory room with both her assigned roommate and the roommate's boy friend, it was she - "the one who slept alone, whose only pills were vitamins and aspirin" - who felt embarrassed. The reason: to many contemporary young people, the virgin is "on the same team with crew cuts and Sensible Orthopedic Shoes and Billy Graham and the Republican Party...
LOOKING BACK by JOYCE MAYNARD 160 pages. Doubleday...
...spring of 1972, Joyce Maynard, then 18 and a Yale freshman, sprang full-blown upon the pages of the New York Times Magazine with a treatise on growing "old" in the 1960s. Since then, she has become the enfant visible of the magazine world, writing features about everything from proms to prodigies and becoming a gossip-column celebrity in her own right by tying up with the hero of another generation, J.D. Salinger (TIME...
...Maynard's generation was David Riesman's Lonely Crowd come to life. No longer fine-tuned so much to parents or even to peers, her contemporaries were instead formed by a host of advertising slogans, magazine spreads and television screenplays. Maynard confesses that at 13 she was virtually enslaved by the fashion pages of Seventeen (she still has every copy since 1965), nearly traumatized by LIFE'S cover photograph of an unborn baby ("that eerie fetus") and mesmerized by the very worst of TV ("five thousand hours of my life into this...