Word: rowdyisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hounded by lurid headlines; the New York City public schools last month suspended some 900 classroom toughs after a series of blackboard-jungle incidents ranging from rowdyism to rape (TIME, Feb. 10, 17). But the suspensions only postponed the basic problem: Where can the tough kids go to school...
...will you stoop so low as to air the garments of an old rascal-an atheist-such as Sigmund Freud? Your story was superbly done, but have you ever paused to consider that ". . . the rowdyism, riot and revolt of the youth" can be laid at the doorstep of Freud & Co. You could make another bundle and lay it at the front stoop of the National Education Association-they picked up the ball and recast it as progressive (permissive) education...
...fraternities, with the Dean of Men advising. "We've been well pleased by the workings of it," the administration reports, and there has been little interference, though the right to interfere is maintained. Because of the Vermont law against drinking under 21 and because of strong objection to College rowdyism by the village townspeople, the Council has ruled that there is to be no drinking in public view. It must be taken inside the fraternities...
...teachers' lounge, spattered paint through two classrooms, tore up books in the library. But to veteran Manhattan teachers, all this was not unusual. In the past few years, they have become increasingly accustomed to what the New York Daily News has called the new three Rs-"rowdyism, riot and revolt...
British in Nyasaland were faced with the most ominous outbreak of mass disobedience and rowdyism since David Livingstone, Bible in hand, discovered the lush valley 94 years...