Word: youths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ongoing study by the Center for Criminal Justice at Harvard Law School praises recent reforms in the Massachusetts Department of Youth Service's treatment of delinquent youths and urges continued expansion of the reforms...
...study began in 1969, about the time Jerome Miller, commissioner of the Department of Youth Services, took over. The study was not related to Miller's appointment...
Hesse, even in his latter days of so-called realism and classicism, refused to let go entirely of his fruitless, banal recherche du temps perdu. The last piece included in this volume, "The Interrupted Class," drifts at times into the same melancholy desire for the carefree, innocent days of youth. But here some resolution of the conflict between innocence and experience finally appears: Hesse declares innocent youth a sham. While it's no transcendence into Blake's realm of "organized innocence," as one might expect from the spiritualist Hesse, it is a sign of some growth, however late...
Derian said that the Loyalist Democrats were formed in opposition to the Regulars "because blacks, women, and youth were excluded from Mississippi politics" and because "the Regulars have not endorsed a Democratic Presidential nominee since Roosevelt...
...comedy set in turn-of-the-century Sweden. The characters are subliminal staples of theatrical lore, more familiar as types than sharply etched as individuals. The hero (Len Cariou) is a prosperous lawyer somewhat baffled and buffeted by middle age. Widowed, he has attempted to regain his lost youth by marrying a child bride (Victoria Mallory) who, after eleven months, is still skittishly virginal. Completing the household is Cariou's son (Mark Lambert) who has a jittery case of postadolescent puritanical guilt and an unholy crush on his stepmother. He, in turn, is pursued by a lusty wench...