Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aspiring entrant, which are, says Keniston, "torture and mysterious rites of passage which test his qualifications for membership in the caste of sorcerers. Once they are accepted as full members, the other members will do everything possible to guarantee their success." Family ties also help, but only if the youngster has the brains to stay the grandes écoles course. Still, hardly ever do any but the most undeniably gifted of the children of laborers or farmers pass through the institutions. The reason most do not qualify, defenders of the schools would argue, is that their home and school environments...
...Ozone Park, Queens. From his classroom window at P.S. 108, young Johnny stared at Aqueduct across the street, dreams of flying hoofs and flowing silks dancing in his head. At 15 he showed up at the track looking for work; as always, there was a job for a youngster willing to do the hard, dirty work of mucking out stalls and hot-walking horses in endless circles to cool them down slowly after a workout or a race. When he turned 16, he quit school and went to the track to stay. Says he: "I started out walking hots, carrying...
...didn't do anything unusual." ...Now that Vancouver manager Ed Nottle is in the news again for skippering his team after being ejected by wearing the costume of the local mascot, a conversation he had with a fan while managing Oakland's West Haven affiliate is worth recalling. The youngster called out to Nottle, who wears number one. "Are you Billy Martin?" When Nottle replied in the negative, the fan asked. "Do you know Billy Martin?" Nottle replied, "I thought I knew Billy Martin. I thought he was my friend. But he's sent me out here to manage...
...again rampaged through the streets, despite calls from the I.R.A. itself for calm as the organization prepared its martyr's farewell. Cars and other vehicles were overturned and burned as impromptu barricades. As they had in previous weeks, plumes of smoke from Molotov cocktails hung over Belfast. One youngster blew himself up as he tried to plant a crudely made bomb in that city; a Belfast policeman was shot to death. Another youth died during a riot-caused auto crash. The violence spread to the Irish Republic, where a Dublin gang ran amuck along fashionable Dawson Street, hurling rocks...
...young people's efforts at escape, but to their attempt to return and link up with what seems to them a generational rite of passage. That is original, and Director Kurys has a shrewd and sympathetic eye for adolescent foibles. In Caron the director has found a youngster who, though she has never acted before, has vulnerability and intelligence. Still the film seems inconsequential. Anne and her friends learn a few things and grow up a notch or two, the way people always do in stories of this kind...