Word: youths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nationwide survey showed that 23% of Mexican Americans had less than five years of schooling, compared with 3.6% for the rest of the population. The school dropout rate among chicanos is high (one informed estimate: 42%), and many of those who leave school enroll elsewhere-in youth gangs. An estimated 13,000 young Hispanics belong to such gangs in Los Angeles County alone. Last year there were 69 gang killings...
...outline of Billy Hayes' true story -he is an American youth who escaped a Turkish jail after he was caught carrying hashish in Istanbul-suggests the possibility of a familiar kind of genre film. Clever and desperate prisoners concocting elaborate escape plans, fooling their dense and brutal warders, finally making it to freedom despite the odds -that sort of nonsense, escapist entertainment in the most literal sense of the term. Indeed, the promotion for this film encourages such expectations...
...sent by a business conglomerate to coerce McCabe into selling out. The gunman, blond, boyish, and innocent-looking, asks Carradine what kind of gun he has. Carradine tells him, sheepishly admitting that he really doesn't know how to use it. "Come on, let me see it," the blond youth insists; as Carradine begins to withdraw the gun, the young gunman shoots him, and watches as his body falls into the stream, cracking the ice and slowly sinking...
Gail said, "what I love is their youth and lack of dehabilitating responsibility," compared with the restrictions that a child forces on each of these women, They felt that the average undergraduate lives a marvelously free existence. Where they are committed to the child, most other students "have the freedom to let everything go." What they love about relating to 18 to 20 year olds is that "they are so unspoiled, uncynical...
...Italy, he headed the school that trains Vatican diplomats. (His health is now fine.) In 1970 Paul named him to the See of Palermo. There he swiftly quieted a city badly divided among quarreling Mafia, Communist and Christian Democrat factions. He worked to aid emigrants' families and unemployed youth and?like Naples' Ursi ?learned to live with a powerful Communist influence in the city. As a diplomat, Pappalardo pleaded for an end to "false nationalism" and for recognition that all nationalities are equal?a stand that may earn him support among Third World Cardinals...