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  • Keniston 1971 observed that while puberty as a biological state had been recognized, adolescence, as we understand it today, was only discovered in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

    Clinical Work with Adolescents Judith Marks Mishne 1986

  • As a group, Keniston noted their lack of optimisim, tranquility, or calm and instead, their intense convictions, vehemence, scorn, and passion in their search for some meaning in life.

    Clinical Work with Adolescents Judith Marks Mishne 1986

  • Keniston 1968 was one of the first to describe alienated American youth, who manifested disillusionment with traditional politics, opposition to the Vietnam war, and impatience with the slow gains of the civil rights movement.

    Clinical Work with Adolescents Judith Marks Mishne 1986

  • "Oh, hang Professor Wildmarsh!" said Keniston, softening the commination with a smile.

    The Recovery 1901

  • A moment later Keniston entered; to a mind curious in combinations it might have occurred that he had met Mrs. Davant on the door-step.

    The Recovery 1901

  • Hillbridge was Keniston's milieu, and there was one lady, a devotee of his art, who went so far as to assert that once, at an exhibition in New York, she had passed a Keniston without recognizing it.

    The Recovery 1901

  • Keniston was sent about the country too; he opened art exhibitions, laid the foundations of academies, and acted, in a general sense, as the spokesman and apologist of art.

    The Recovery 1901

  • Keniston took precedence of the Colonial State House, the Gilbert Stuart Washington, and the Ethnological Museum; nay, he ran neck and neck with the President of the University, a pre-historic relic who had known Emerson, and who was still sent about the country in cotton-wool to open educational institutions with a toothless oration on Brook Farm.

    The Recovery 1901

  • Some one else, emboldened by the thought, bought a Keniston; and the next year, on the occasion of the President's golden jubilee, the Faculty, by unanimous consent, presented him with a Keniston.

    The Recovery 1901

  • She heard a hand on the door and Keniston entered.

    The Recovery 1901

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