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...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...
...nearly $18 million), Howard O. McMahon resigned in November 1971 after two years of earnings declines; his replacement, John F. Magee, last month launched a reorganization of the company. In addition, other firms among the industry's top 30 have gone through major management shakeups. They include H.B. Maynard Co., a Pittsburgh-based subsidiary of Planning Research in Los Angeles; Science Management of Moorestown, N.J.; Lester B. Knight & Associates and George Fry Consultants, both of Chicago; Spencer Stuart & Associates and Boyden Associates of New York...
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...