Word: youths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mary Ellen Preusser bills herself as a human services advocate. Over the past year she has conducted a survey to determine what issues are most important to Cambridge citizens. She has discovered the voters care most about rent control, police protection, youth counseling and services for the elderly. She supports human and civil rights, including the civil rights of homosexuals...
...argued that the University should subsidize the PIRG in the interests of encouraging the free exchange of ideas, then it would be wrong to stop at just one partisan group. What about the Harvard Republicans, the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee, the Spartacus Youth League? The University should on this principle add $100 to students' term bills and distribute the proceeds to whoever has a cause to promote...
Once condemned as a corrupter of youth or as the nefarious and iniquitous pursuit of leather-jacketed punks, long relegated to tacky arcades and dingy diners, pinball today is played openly and avidly by scholars, doctors, scientists, showfolks, pols, brokers, journalists -members of the nervous trades. Manufacturers cannot supply enough of the new solid-state pins to meet the demands of upper-and middle-class families who want the erstwhile diabolus ex machina in their homes...
...Equus' main drawback is its philosophical thrust. Like so many other trendy writers, from R.D. Laing to Ken Kesey, Shaffer wonders whether madness may be a greater virtue than sanity in a sterile modern world. In Equus, madness is personified by Alan Strang (Peter Firth), a pretty, blond youth whose sexual desire for horses drives him to blind them; sanity takes the form of Dysart (Richard Burton), a repressed psychiatrist charged with curing Alan of his antisocial passion. In this confrontation between a virile equussexual and an impotent prune, can there be any doubt as to who will emerge...
...before, Kosinski turns his hero's journeys into a travelogue of depravity. By the time Levanter is 15, he has already literalized the Oedipal drama with his mother and participated in the brutal rape of a teen-age girl at a Communist Party youth camp. Afflicted with a moral numbness, he now hovers like a kestrel over scenes of potential folly. Word that a Midwest U.S. hotel has booked a convention of the "Alliance for Small Americans," for example, sends Levanter flying to the scene; he wants to be on hand when the hotel discovers that its guests...