Word: youths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...poverty or insecurity and up, up, up. It is quite another matter when a child is taught to behave in a certain way, to go to certain schools or camps and get along at them in a certain way, because that is what a healthy, welladjusted, "successful" child or youth manages to do. One mother, the wife of a well-to-do lawyer, has spoken to me repeatedly of her concern for her children. She knows they will probably find reasonably worthwhile jobs or professions when they are older. But she wants more from them-high competence, excellence, repeated demonstrations...
Western Christians often mention Brother Roger Schutz, founder of France's Protestant monastery of Taize (TIME, April 29, 1974), as a saint. Brother Roger's worldwide Taize youth groups are out to change the world, but what he offers at Taize -and to them-is essentially a shared life based deeply on prayer. "We should not pray for any useful end," Brother Roger has written, "but in order to create a community of free men with Christ...
...attention is of a kind that Joyce would welcome. Irish Journalist Stan Gebler Davies has taken the measure of the two previous Joyce biographies (by Herbert Gorman and Richard Ellmann) and found them too hagiographic for his taste. By contrast, Davies' Joyce seems to spend most of his youth consorting with Dublin prostitutes and most of his maturity lying drunk in a succession of Continental gutters. Clearly the man liked wine and women; it is his song that Davies manages to ignore. He dismisses, for instance, the difficult but hardly inaccessible Finnegans Wake as a "monument to perversity...
...years ago, Arab Poet Tawfiq Zayad could scarcely have imagined how sharp a thorn he would become to the Israelis. In a stunning election victory last week, Zayad, 46, a lifelong Communist agitator, became the new mayor of Nazareth, which is not only the town where Jesus spent his youth but also the largest (pop. 40,000) all-Arab city in Israel. Zayad polled an overwhelming 67% of the vote, while members of his broad Democratic Front coalition won eleven of the 17 seats on the city council...
Oscar Wilde said it was impossible for a sensitive person to read of the death of Little Nell without laughing. Tennes see Williams provokes the same irreverence with his cloying presentation of little Heavenly's fate in Sweet Bird of Youth. Heavenly has had her "youth" cut out, leaving her "to rattle like a dried-up vine where the gulf wind blows." Bluntly put, she underwent a hysterectomy at age 15 after getting the clap from her lover, Superstud Chance Wayne, just before he skipped town to pursue a gigolo's career. Now, years later, Chance returns...