Word: youths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When I was 20," he said, "I had a visionary experience in which I got fixated--an epiphany. I got hung up on the sensation of eternity--I tried to grab it. I got disillusioned with my youth. The disillusionment itself is the great vision...
...Republican National Committee, Jesse Jackson called for a domestic Marshall Plan to revitalize the nation's cities. In spite of such obstacles, Brock insists that black voters can be won to traditional Republican economics. "What have Democratic proposals done for blacks?" he asks. "Thirty-seven percent of black youth is unemployed. We won't be taking the big-spending route." The lone black in the Senate, Republican Edward Brooke of Massachusetts, agrees. Says he: "It's not a question of the free enterprise system; there is plenty of black support for free enterprise." But, adds Brooke...
...brother's suicide. This places him under police suspicion because a number of people he has known have died similarly violent and mysterious deaths. While the cops investigate, Abel takes up desultorily with his brother's widow (Liv Ullmann). They are befriended by an acquaintance of their youth, now a doctor (Heinz Bennent) doing some sort of secret research at a nearby hospital. Since he carries himself in the manner of Helmut Dantine when he was playing Gestapo officers some 35 years ago, one can guess that the doctor's work is not going to earn...
...Unemployment stands at 7.4%, or 1.7 million out of a labor force of 23 million. Of the unemployed, more than 1 million are young. Parliament allocated $1.2 billion last year to provide between 500,000 and 600,000 jobs for unemployed youth, but the effort was an almost complete failure. Though 650,000 people signed up, there have been only 62,000 job openings thus...
...city's legal department, rather than dealt with by education officials. The Massachusetts legislature has lately stiffened penalties for assaults on teachers. Los Angeles, meanwhile, is testing an inner-city pilot program known as the "Juvenile Justice Center," in which any offense committed by a neighborhood youth will be tried by one of the center's two judges. "The youngster knows the judge, and everyone else knows the youngster," says Judge David Kenyon. "No way is the youngster going...