Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...true can be profound. Says a 13-year-old New Yorker: "When you find out that every other guy in the class does it and it's not all that unhealthy, you don't feel so bad any more." Homosexuality is currently a major concern of youngsters of both sexes, though most programs try to postpone extended treatment of the seamy side of sex-VD, abortion, perversion-until a positive image has been established in the youngster's mind. Girls tend to worry about the risk of pregnancy and the pain of childbirth...
...CHILDREN'S FILM FESTIVAL (CBS, 4-5 p.m.). The Boy with Glasses is a sensitive Japanese film about a youngster frightened by the prospect of having to wear glasses and his gradual understanding that a person is not judged by appearance alone...
...appropriate to its age. The Indians recognized a hierarchy of spiritual age among men which had no relation to the physical or chronological age of a man's body. Unlike the Buddhists, the Hindus attempted to order society on this principle through a rigid hierarchy of hereditary classes. A youngster of the Brahman class -- on top of the social ladder -- was therefore older, in spirit, than an aged man of a lower class. In theory, an intellectual and spiritual aristocracy ruled Hindu society...
...together. Almost all the Southern universities now have some Negroes. Admissions officers at such universities as California and Stanford give preference to Negroes; like many other schools, Harvard often chooses Negroes over whites with equivalent academic records. So many scholarships are being offered that almost any talented, energetic Negro youngster can get into college...
...families most likely to have difficulty in getting help, in fact, are those with middle-class incomes. They do not rate as needy, yet the high cost of sending a youngster to college-as more and more are doing once, twice or even three times in a working lifetime-is enough to strain their budgets to breaking...