Word: youths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...asked his followers to suggest goals for the council, and ideas have flowed in. As collected in a new paperback, Dare to Live: The Taizé Youth Experience (Seabury; $2.95), the ideas are eclectic and ambitious. Often they reflect local versions of radical Christianity. A Latin American, for instance, looks forward to a somewhat Utopian kind of social, economic and political liberation-a Christian "revolution" that will set the world aright. Others view Christian life as a "sign of contradiction" in a pagan civilization-to see their role as an example of selfless living in a selfish world. "The council...
...agers hang around the same drive-ins, drive the same hot-rods, listen to the same rock music, but otherwise bear no resemblance to Graffiti's kids. Instead they are the inheritors of the Henry Aldrich tradition, in which the awkwardness, sexual inexperience and general un-worldliness of youth are good only for an indulgent, nostalgic laugh. They are never touched by honest rue, let alone intimations of tragedy. The program is full of period references-Mickey Spillane, stuffing telephone booths, a wondrous new gadget known as the seat belt-but there is never a reference to the human...
...arrests have yet been made in the case, but police are looking for a 15- to 17-year-old boy described to them by O'Rourke as the wounded youth's assailant, Cambridge Det. Sgt. James A. Roscoe said yesterday...
Evans has gone to great lengths to increase the number of black applicants to Harvard. Last fall he spent countless hours after work, mailing letters to the several hundred National Achievement Scholarship semi-finalists. 'Yet such hard work, when it does persuade another black youth to apply, can be undone by a few minutes with black students who think they are doing someone a favor by steering him away from Harvard...
...movies. What the movies represent, Pauline Kael wrote at the end of the '60s, is that "the world doesn't work the way the schoolbooks said it did and we are different from what our parents and teachers expected us to be." Kael felt that way in her youth, and by the '60s the feeling was widespread...