Word: youths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White House been so consistently alien to the values of the people as during Nixon's reign of terror. He delivered packaged death to Vietnam and we protested; he sliced away at the programs that helped the poor, and we cried out in pain. But never had contempt for youth been so clear in such powerful places as it was during the Nixon regime; never had so many of the government's facilities been employed to strangle opposition, Never had corruption and evil been so clear, and yet so seemingly invincible; never had justice been in so broad a retreat...
...incident in a raging demonstration that spread to Athens and was directed at British as well as American facilities. In the Greek capital, Cypriot students climbed the walls of the British embassy compound and tossed fire bombs that burned automobiles and scorched the embassy. On Cyprus, meanwhile, one youth was accidentally killed by a military vehicle during a Greek Cypriot demonstration against the British at the entrance to the Akrotiri base area on the southern coast. The protests were aroused by a decision to move 10,000 Turkish refugees out of the British bases where most of them have been...
...elsewhere, there are some enfants terribles whose public image gets trapped in infancy. Whether or not such an artist really is Peter Pan, he is apt to be treated as though he were; a precocious reputation stiffens round him like a coffin, immuring him in the period of his youth. He is not expected to mature, but simply to become an older virtuoso, so that all his later work risks being dismissed as an appendage to the earlier. If he accepts this role, it grips him, and he turns into a vulgar monster-something like Salvador Dali. If he fights...
...year contract with the financially troubled Stax Records of Memphis and made her recording debut just before Christmas with rusty-oldie Little Blue Man. An LP will be released this spring. In the past, June has promoted some of her stepfather's right-wing causes, such as the Youth Freedom Speakers, even as she built her career, singing and playing the guitar in churches. Now she intends to concentrate on music, describing her style as "message-oriented Pop." She sounds just like Doris Day, say admirers, and has earned a rave from the magazine Record World, whose reviewer pronounced...
...certain age group, in a certain sort of social situation, have a certain, more particular version of that kind of problem. Even a lot of the psychologists that I've talked to just wanted to put what I was talking about generally into the bag of alienated youth, or generally into the bag of America's problem being intimacy...