Word: youths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...take issue with your statement, "There is no simple answer or ready remedies to the problem of 'Youth for Sale on the Streets' " [Nov. 28]. There is in fact an obvious solution: eliminate the market. Not once did you mention those who pay for the services of these teens. Without their lust there would be no Mafia involvement, no pimps, no juvenile prostitutes. The sick clods who are degrading these young people need to be strung up by their thumbs...
...decline of public services, continued high unemployment and balance of payments deficits. The social peace that has characterized Soares' term has been shattered by several violent demonstrations and bombings. Earlier this month, 20,000 right-wing demonstrators-including wealthy businessmen, dirt farmers from the north and neo-Nazi youth-marched through Lisbon to show their discontent...
...both countries had similar family backgrounds: fathers they saw as stern and punitive, mothers as distant and cold. Says Lichter: "The essence of the relationship was reduced to respect for the parent because of his power, rather than love." At the same time, a whole generation of West German youth grew up in the dark about their fathers' wartime activities. A child did not ask: "What did you do in the war, Daddy?" Thus, in one sense, Germany produced a "fatherless generation." Lichter speculates that "after generations of German fathers dominating the family it is possible that some thing...
From a cynical perspective Saturday Night Fever looks not so much like a movie as a merchandising assault on the youth market. The first film to exploit the latest disco craze, it stars a hot TV personality, John Travolta, and features a sound track overcrowded with highly pluggable Bee Gees songs. The sets are plastered with posters of Al Pacino and Farrah Fawcett-Majors; the script shamelessly ransacks American Graffiti and Rocky. The people behind Saturday Night Fever -or perhaps one should say the accountants-have not left much to chance...
David Riesman '31, Ford Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus, said yesterday he "wouldn't overemphasize the Vietnam war." An increase in females returning to school, a loss of adult authority over youth, peer pressure and the "insouciant" attitudes of men in today's society all contribute to the decline, he said...