Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...psychiatrist will treat the parents as much as the boy, in an effort to correct the flaws in the youngster's background. He will seem to pay little attention to the symptom of homosexuality, being scrupulously careful not to give it disproportionate emphasis. Instead, he will help the boy to see how his emotional growth has been stunted or twisted by factors that he did not understand. Then, when the whole personality is once more developing along more nearly normal lines, the problem of homosexuality can be resolved...
...most famous son of Collodi, an outlying district of the Tuscan town of Pescia, was a mischievous, woodenheaded youngster named Pinocchio. Ever since Author Carlo Lorenzini, writing under the pen name of Carlo Collodi, created Pinocchio 73 years ago, the impish antics of the bad puppet who became a good boy have delighted children the world over. Two years ago, Pinocchio added another measure to his fame. Professor Rolando Anzilotti of the University of Florence defeated his Communist opponent in the race for mayor of Pescia by promising that, if elected, he would see to it that a suitable statue...
...written order. A mother stated that she sent her little girls to parochial school because "they weren't learning handwriting in public school's." And another parent admitted she was mortified that her 10-year-old could not even read a letter written in English by a Parisian youngster...
Goodale then had to provide for taking care of the glass flowers. He hired a boy who was born in 1886, the same year the director first talked to the Blaschkas. The youngster, Louis Charles Bierweiler, was 14 when he came to work as Goodale's assistant...
...shadow of a Chicago poolroom hoodlum named Studs Lonigan. But while Farrell undoubtedly put his best talent into the creation of Studs, he has since lavished double the affection, energy and space (present count: 5 vols., 2,529 pp.) on Danny O'Neill, a sensitive, spectacled youngster growing up in the same South Side slums as Studs and James Farrell himself. Earlier novels in the O'Neill saga, e.g., A World I Never Made, My Days of Anger, found young Danny seething with frustrations and a rage to leave the poor, brawl-bitten shanty Irish world...