Word: todays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Detroit the breeding ground for this new white-rap sound? In part it's because Detroit has long been a musical city, and today's young performers are drawing from its legacy. Kid Rock speaks reverently of Motown, Bob Seger and MC5. Insane Clown Posse's terrible new CD, The Amazing Jeckel Brothers (Island), has a bit of the macho theatricality of Ted Nugent, mutated into something more violent and antisocial...
...being tormented by a popular classmate simply because he was quiet, a situation too many schools allow to go unchecked. I am 35, and still remember being picked on in high school and treated like an outsider. I clearly recall the ambivalent response by my teachers. I think kids today are probably even more cruel than they were 20 years ago, and our schools are not doing enough to stop such behavior. JONATHAN BRODER New York City...
...parent, whose job it is to instill values and morals, should explain how fantasy differs from reality and help troubled kids grow up to be well-rounded individuals. High school kids today are not spending evenings watching movies with their friends. They are usually unsupervised and getting into trouble. They are going to parks to get drunk and high. Kids will be kids, but someone needs to explain reality. Society should embrace children and teach them not just about algebra and how to make money but also about life. KATE FIELDS Washington...
...nearly five decades, Catcher in the Rye and the character of Holden Caulfield have been the example of adolescent alienation. Holden's alienation and despair are served up to young minds without much context or perspective. Young people today need a catcher in the rye to keep them from the steep cliffs of nihilism and moral relativism that are sold to them in popular media and in the classroom. Hats off to the youth workers who are catching kids right and left every day before they go over the cliff. PAUL SAILHAMER Fullerton, Calif...
Disney is planning to buy the 57% of portal partner InfoSeek that it does not already own, consolidate its various Net properties and issue a tracking stock to take advantage of today's relatively high valuations. On their own, Disney's Net holdings would be worth $6 billion to $7 billion, according to analysts. But when they're lumped in with Disney's traditional businesses (like theme parks), that value is diminished...