Word: youthe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...youth who can't get a skill...
...lesbian, seduces Lazar in order to get him to read her screenplay. Sidney Stein, a novelist, invites Lazar to his home for dinner merely to lure him out into the woods and beat him up as revenge for double-dealing in a joint film project. Allen, a friend from youth, makes a homosexual pass and later tries to borrow $5,000. Even Lazar's rich Uncle Irving seems less interested in mourning his dead sister than haggling over the cost of her funeral: "This can't be the price . . . The cemetery isn't that...
...wake of that incident, College officials sent "warnings" to two of the hecklers, both members of the Friends of the Spartacus Youth League, informing them that similar behavior in the future "will, in all probability, lead to disciplinary action...
...while also decreeing that those with more than one child must lose 10% of their income for at least five years. Some affluent farmers, however, are no longer deterred by the financial penalty. As more and more young men have begun looking westward, enrollment in the once prestigious Communist Youth League, the party's junior partner, has plummeted. "People are now very pragmatic," observes a 27-year-old student in Peking. "They no longer care about ideology but are only preoccupied with personal wellbeing. The young worry about love and marriage, the workers about bonuses, the peasants about getting rich...
...news from Paris the other day: they have abolished the carte pneumatique, otherwise known as the pneu, an institution that dates back to the empire of Napoleon III. For those who did not spend some of their youth in Paris and therefore do not know about the pneu, it was a letter on gray paper that whizzed through a 269-mile network of pneumatic tubes and then was delivered by a mailman on a bicycle. Faster than an ordinary letter (it took about two hours) but cheaper ($1.80) than a telegram, the pneu provided a valuable service at the moveable...