Word: youths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Devo in a futile and self-defeating shot at record sales through novelty. The band's appearance on NBC's Saturday Night Live only gave the folks in Peoria a superficial look at Devo, and probably left them shaking their heads at the decadence of today's wasted youth...
...reporter turning up at one of her lectures at Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History noted that the speaker somehow managed to discuss museums, stones, stuffed birds, cave paintings, Cro-Magnon man, children, parents, grandparents, dinosaurs, whales, the possibility of life in outer space, education, the youth revolution of the 1960s, the oneness of the human species, pollution, evolution, growing up in New Guinea, relations between the sexes, communes and the fragmentation of communities...
...young people loved her, partly, as Bohannan recalls, because "she never talked down to anybody," partly because she clearly loved young people. Of the Mundugumor tribespeople, she wrote: "It seemed clear to me that a culture that so repudiated children could not be a good culture." Remembering her own youth, she regularly defended the behavior and ideals of youth and decried the efforts of their elders to "keep them in their places." As she once said in defense of TV, "For the first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders...
...gentleman goes to a lady's house if he is affected by alcohol. A gentleman seeing a young man who is not entirely himself in the presence of ladies, quietly induces the youth to depart...
...youth does not dwell on this point, and McEwan never links Jack's pathology to society at large. Preachiness and moralizing would only direct attention away from the immediacy that is the novel's strongest suit. Seen from the inside, the characters are simply beleaguered children trying to cope and, ultimately, failing. Outsiders find their degeneration criminal; the book shows the inadequacy of such a judgment. Aberrant acts fascinate because of their strangeness, and those who perform them are rarely able to make their reasons clear. The Cement Garden suggests that the most terrifying thing about such behavior...