Word: youths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What is so troubled about a game, tennis [Sept. 11], that commands such a fine audience, attracts so much youth? If technique, physical and mental fitness and talent are means toward large financial rewards, it is only a credit to the game that lures thousands away from harmful pastimes and overall boredom. I only wish there were more Flushing Meadows, because in today's world I cannot think of a nobler financial investment...
...fiery chairwoman of the 7 million-member Kabataang Barangay (Youth Council) held her audience spellbound as she denounced the U.S. "Step up the drumbeat!" she exhorted her youthful followers at the council's convention in Laguna province this month. Calling for total war against foreign intervention, she demanded the dismantling of the huge U.S. military bases in the Philippines...
...Camerlengo, of the Holy See. Villot said that the Pope showed no signs of fatigue as he bade him good night. The day ended where it began, in the chapel with evening prayer. As the staff members retired, they told John Paul of the fatal ambush of a Communist youth by right-wing extremists in Rome. "They kill each other ?even the young people," he lamented. They were the last words anyone would hear him utter...
...film. The road to his adulthood, often fraught with rebellion and inner turmoil, mothered the self-expression and irony audiences have come to love Carlin for. Carlin has always been able to articulate, and to parody the sort of conflicts that have become more and more central to youth of America since the '60s: conflicts about sex and decadence and love and identity...
Rebel Without a Cause. This Nicholas Ray-directed production was James Dean's first movie. Also starring the nubile 13-year old Natalie Wood and the late Sal Mineo as a Troubled Youth. ("Why'd you shoot the puppies Plato?" has to be one of the greatest non sequiturs in American film history--and also in the annals of cap writing. How the '50s really were; John and Olivia were never like this...