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...action...leaves the observer...with the impression that this is an experience which, by and large, is not constructive for the boy or girl and which seems to emphasize values and a philosophy not consistent with the Authority program. There is, for instance, the constant preaching to the youngster about the necessity for good behavior which carries with it the erroneous assumption that good behavior is simply a matter of choice and the offender who makes up his mind to behave can behave. This sort of preaching from the bench seems to be a disease readily acquired by judges...
...make it," he says. "I was one of them. I felt like nothing." According to father, "if I practiced I would get better, but even so, not everyone can make the team. You don't have to be the best to feel like something." Similarly, the youngster overhears his mother and father fighting. But his sister assures him that "our parents still love us, even if they can't get along sometimes." When he defends a friend who is being teased by schoolmates, he feels brave. Even though he may get hurt, he decides, he must "take...
...better feelings, which do not help, but seize her. (When a young girl races across a street with a dog tagging behind, and the dog is killed by a truck. Alex overreacts: she immediately thinks of the possibility of the girl's death, which only frightens the youngster). Alex can finally declare that she no longer accepts Elkin on his terms--that for her, nothing, at the moment, is better than anything. But her circumstances remain unsettled, her outlook less than sanguine...
...Found Speed. Though Smith has been playing tennis for a decade, he is a relative newcomer to the big-time pro circuit. Gawky as a youngster (at 14, he was once rejected as a ball boy for fear he might trip over his size-13 sneakers and get in the way of the players), he later became known as half of the country's top doubles team -with Bob Lutz, his partner at the University of Southern California. To become a topflight singles player, Smith needed to speed up his ability to cover the court. "I was a high...
...Enrico started playing with his musical family professionally. England's child labor laws were-and still area considerable hindrance. "They only allow kids to be in 40 shows a year," explains his father. This spring the family brought Enrico to the New Orleans Jazz Festival and dropped the youngster like a tiny sonic bomb into the midst of America's most famous jazzmen...