Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jordan reporting a personal encounter with the law-and-order issue in crime-plagued Washington, D.C. The 70-year-old legislator was on his way to a Senate prayer breakfast when he was accosted by a burly young thug in the elevator of his apartment building. The youth demanded Jordan's wallet and watch, but the crusty Republican was in the mood for dissent. He swung. "It's ridiculous that you have to live dangerously like this," said Jordan, a 200-pounder who played football as a youth. "I figured I must be slipping when...
...Youth and Workers. By then the feisty Sheil was already showing anti-Establishment symptoms. Concerned about youth, too many of whom he had met in jail, he formed a club to keep them straight. The bishop's Catholic Youth Organization was not limited to Catholics-or to whites. Critics snickered at it as the "colored youth organization" and complained that it put too much stress on boxing tournaments. Retorted Sheil: "You can't inspire boys away from brothels and saloons with checkers tournaments...
...youth's disaffection by the admittedly arduous process of mending the social and political dislocations of the times: uncertain wars, a capricious draft system, inequitable distribution of opportunity and income, institutions too immured against necessary change. The goal probably should not be to eliminate drugs entirely, which is impossible, but to control them and diminish their allure by offering the only valid alternative?a life of challenge and fulfillment. That, as kids who have reached a mature understanding of drugs already know, can also be a turn-on, and a better...
...find themselves, dazed and uncomprehending, turning him over to the police. Pop drugs hardly portend anything as drastic as a new and debauched American spirit, as some alarmists believe. But drug use does reflect some little-recognized shifts in adult American values as well as the persistent unwillingness of youth to accept the straight world. The mounting research on drugs permits some new perspectives on their use and abuse; still, the pop-drug scene is, if anything, more than ever clouded by fear, dismay and mistrust...
...those who take "chemical vacations," in Aldous Huxley's phrase, are simply in search of a high. Pop drugs are inextricably mixed with the youth culture and its distaste for a supertechnology that seems remote, false and uncaring. The two-martini lunch and the cocktail party have become potent symbols of frantic, achievement-oriented Western culture; for the young drug taker, the belligerent or sloppy drunk personifies the older generation's "hypocrisy" and lack of control. The darker side of pop drugs is the fact that some users have serious emotional problems. Dr. Phyllis Kempner, a clinical psychologist who works...