Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...troupe's leading lady breaks her ankle, and the mousy, bespectacled assistant stage manager (Twiggy) is dragooned into taking over her role. The director (Max Adrian) even tells her: "You're going out there as a youngster, but you've got to come back a star." Sure enough, she does, for in the audience that day is the great Hollywood director De Thrill (Vladek Sheybal). While he watches the performance, he fantasizes how he would shoot the production numbers, enabling Russell to imitate the old Busby Berkeley style movie musicals...
...youngster who had been made part of the System threw Newark, N.J., into mild turmoil last week. Lawrence Hamm, 17, who was appointed to the local school board last summer by Mayor Kenneth Gibson, introduced a resolution permitting the predominantly black city's classrooms to fly the red, black and green flag of black liberation.* The resolution passed (in the absence of four of the board's nine members), and Newark schoolchildren planned to hoist the colors...
Bios even favors separation of the sexes in school for a while after puberty and disagrees with arguments that thwarting a youngster's new-found sexual drive will be harmful. By the time a child is sexually mature, Bios says, his personality is strong enough to tolerate and even profit from delay, repression and sublimation...
...friend with an unusual expression of envy. "Boy, are you lucky! You live in a place with elevators, and you can walk to the candy store any time you want to." The surprised friend was a street-wise black from downtown Bridgeport. "That's all right," the black youngster answered. "You got some nice things here...
...reading scores have gone up for Berkeley primary children of all races, although not as rapidly for blacks and Chicanos as for whites and Asians. The problem for the slower students seems to be time. Says Dr. Arthur D. Dambacher of Berkeley's office of research: "The younger the youngster involved, the more positive the results?they don't have to unlearn habits picked up in a segregated setting...