Word: teendom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are some 30 million teens in the U.S., and they spend $12 billion each year. That enchanting fact has prompted publishers to go after a share of the teen green. The first adolescent stirrings were detected more than ten years ago when two events of major import to teendom coincided: the birth of Elvis Presley as an idol and the death of James Dean. Suddenly publications bearing either one's name were selling half a million copies. Soon magazines were riding, first, the Beatles, then the Rolling Stones, and now the Monkees. Currently, half a dozen monthlies...
Worldly, interesting, informed and even intellectual when barely out of childhood, young kids all over the U.S. are pulling down the entry age to teendom. Even as they do, the affluent society is pushing up the average age of school leaving. The lengthened span of teen-agery-what Johns Hopkins Sociologist James Coleman calls "the coming earlier to social maturity while having to spend a considerably longer period in a dependent role"-is further fattened by a growth rate of teen-age population that is four times as high as the U.S. average. The country now has 24 million people...
...Ghoulaid," and he says he likes to read The Tragedy of Ghoulius Caesar. From college he graduated magna ghoul laude. Perhaps because he sees himself as another Ghoul Brynner, he has a ghoult complex. His favorite ballplayer is Ghoul Hodges. This goes on until adults can justifiably despair of teendom as a world they never made...