Word: youths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Please do not imply that American youth is eating up the products of "rock's new sensation...
...hangover of the '60s. The headiest intoxicant of that decade was youth, the perennial firewater of the U.S. imagination and temperament. The country is youth prone the way some people are accident prone. But the young are the least reliable guides to the future since they have not been there. In the '60s their parents, their teachers, almost all of the people who ought to have been the mentors of semiformed minds, genuflected before the whims, threats, and often asinine behavior of the young. These elders lacked the conviction to offer guidance since they had almost casually divested...
...home in Europe, either. She left Sweden when she was twelve, and when she returns now it is not to her homeland. She loves to go back there and makes the trip about every three years. It's nostalgic then, journeying back to the land of her tomboy youth, where they didn't let the girls play soccer, as her daughters do here; where she avoided dance classes and thrilled in climbing trees. "I love to hear the people speaking my language. It's nice to go into a bookstore and see that all the books are in Swedish...
Pocked Dignity. Legman's revenge was Fake Revolt (1967), an overheated assault on the youth rebellion. "COOL," he concluded, "is the new venereal disease." Despite such desert-prophet eruptions, Legman's scholarship continued. The Limerick is a massive accumulation of the world's most suggestive examples. The Horn Book contains studies in erotic folklore. The Guilt of the Templars is about heresy and sexual perversion in the medieval order of the Knights Templar. Ora genitalism is an elegantly written and anything but smutty study subtitled "Oral Techniques in Genital Excitation." Legman is also an authority on origami...
...Cambridge consulting business has proven so successful that in 1972 two sophomores majoring in Economics started their own firm, which has been tripling in growth rate ever since. The president and vice president of the firm do not want to be identified for fear that competitors will hold their youth against them, and because prospective clients may not entrust them with projects...