Word: youths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have not only endured but even multiplied. Crime and political terrorism have continued to rise, with 76 kidnapings in 1977. Four shootings, presumably the work of political extremists, took place in Rome last week alone. A right-wing politician, suspected of participating in a fatal attack on a Communist Youth Federation member in 1976, was killed; two young leftists and the wife of a journalist working on the far-right newspaper II Secolo D'ltalia were wounded...
...networks have scrambled for young audiences-the free-spending youth market favored by advertisers-they may have inadvertently excluded nearly half the population, the 90 million people over 35. Not long ago, shows were designed to appeal to both young and old: for every Elvis Presley he introduced to turn on the kids, Ed Sullivan would follow with a troupe of Liechtensteiner yodelers to soothe their parents...
...California, the Berkeley Christian Coalition evolved from a wing of the Jesus Movement revival that dealt with the street people, university students, hitchhikers, political radicals and occultists found nowadays in large college communities. It runs a free university, a youth ranch, a drop-in hostel, a street drama troupe, the sprightly Radix newspaper, and the unique Spiritual Counterfeits Project, which acts as a watchdog on Oriental and occult movements in the U.S. "Our objective," says S.C.P. Director Brooks Alexander, 41, "is to expose and counter the broad patterns of spiritual deception within our culture...
...which the movement has registered no notable influence on the formative ideas and ideals of American culture." There is little Evangelical leverage in the great universities or communications outlets. "How often do you see a born-again Christian portrayed on TV except as some hick?" asks Philip Yancey of Youth for Christ...
...Roman Catholic guilts, we see a mindless explosion of pent-up energy that is almost frighteningly hedonistic. The characters become cruel and volatile beneath the strobe lights, and it seems that Saturday Night Fever has an authentic statement to make about America's newest crop of alienated youth...