Word: youthe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...high schooler in New York City: "When you get an 80, they say, 'Why not an 85?' If you get an 85, it's 'Why not a 90?' " Many Asian- American parents even dictate their children's college courses, with an eye to a desirable future. New York City Youth Counselor Amy Lee, 26, remembers that * when she changed her field from premed to psychology, her parents were upset, but pressed her at least to get a Ph.D. "They wanted a doctor in the family, and they didn't care what kind...
...week's glimpse into the volatile inner cities was just such a project. White's team consisted of New York-based Correspondent Thomas McCarroll, who provided a gripping profile of a black family in Newark; Los Angeles Correspondent Jon D. Hull, who described a harrowing murder committed by a youth-gang member in Los Angeles; and Washington Correspondent Anne Constable, who talked to government officials as well as scholars and civil rights leaders...
...sits alone in a white suit, in a white room, staring ahead, perhaps at another painting. The silhouette of a devoted woman shimmers to one side. At his feet are neat piles of scripts, art books, 3-by-5 cards from a pristine youth. His face shows no emotion or thought; all the wild wit and inquiring intellect are hidden inside. It is the face that says, "Go away." But some mad fan has tampered with the portrait. On the man's head he has drawn nose glasses, bunny ears and a hat with an arrow through...
...earn money illegally, often from selling drugs. But the explosive growth of the ghetto drug culture further erodes the work ethic. In a recent paper, Anderson laments the growing cleavage between what he calls "old heads and young boys." Old heads were the traditional neighborhood mentors of ghetto youth. Their message, Anderson writes, "was about manners and the value of hard work, involving how to get a job, how to keep a job, how to dress for a job interview, how to deal with a prospective employer." But with work scarce and cocaine permeating the ghetto, young blacks now tend...
From death in Detroit to the supernatural in an English cathedral, a sampler of mysteries. -- The tragic odyssey of a Harlem youth...