Word: youthe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pitts who led the way. A tall, warm welcome of a man, Pitts, 46, knew the neighborhood as no outsider could. He had grown up there, walked its streets as a city cop and volunteered in a local youth service agency. Over the years he had come to understand that all too often the poor in the inner cities live more like inmates than citizens. Liberty City had health clinics and community centers and every kind of social service agency. But it had no supermarket for 60,000 residents, and no new family housing had been built in 20 years...
Ward was in Oxford with James Meredith; he was shot in the shoulder for his protective pains. Yet he seems criminally naive about race relations in the South. In a luncheonette he quizzes a young black; that night the youth is tortured. Ward's way is to send his agents wading solemnly through a Jessup swamp in their dark gray suits, looking for all the world like a lost patrol of Blues Brothers. The result is only frustration and conflagration, as Negro churches, schools, shacks go up in flames. Anderson, a native Mississippian, knows how to talk to the natives...
...treachery and altruism? Debating the question, Europeans have driven Thomas' adventure to the top of their best-seller lists. It is likely to have a commensurate success in the U.S., where some people fondly remember Father Knows Best and the rest are aware that outsmarting adults is one of youth's most hallowed traditions...
...means misfortune or treachery. The sport's new respectability may sadden those who savor the raunchiness of the old dives. For it was there, in the ramshackle shelter of the pool hall, on the margins of society, that one could, with luck and a certain impunity, misspend one's youth...
...however, exactly the world's most fun year. Somehow the memory of Nazi troops pouring into Poland might mar my enjoyment of next Sept. 1. Others might be attracted by the international status that instantly accompanies ownership of the Economist Desk Diary. But then, others in their youth went to England as Rhodes scholars; I had to pick up my Anglophilia during a three-day theater tour of London...