Word: 20s
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...easy to become a conductor. There are formal academic programs, but you can really learn to conduct only by doing it, and to do it you need an orchestra. "You have no instrument to practice," Alsop told TIME. "You can't get any experience." In her 20s Alsop worked as a freelance violinist in New York City, but after hours she would bribe her musician friends with pizza to let her lead them through Mozart symphonies. When she couldn't get a regular conducting position, she founded her own ensemble, the Concordia Orchestra. Never let it be said that Alsop...
...first year of marriage for couples in their 20s, husbands follow their wives' lead in deciding whether or not to smoke pot, according to University of Buffalo researchers. A survey of 634 couples found that husbands, on the other hand, had little influence on their wives' marijuana habits...
...largest study of its kind, researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham report that Americans suffer an alarming number of eye injuries: nearly 2 million a year. Men have twice the injury rate of women, and white males in their 20s have the highest rate of all. Among the riskiest activities: playing basketball and other sports, operating welding or construction tools and using household cleansers. --By Sora Song
...comedy that reflected America's collective self-image. For the first time ever, Americans could watch a set of characters growing up just as they did. Not until the advent of television would there be any equivalent mass media experience. The Wallets will go through the boom of the 20s, struggle through the Great Depression, after which Skeezix will join the military and fight in the Second World War until he comes home and raises a family of his own during the 1950s. Based heavily on King's own life, as evidenced by the archival materials provided in the book...
...sharp reminder that--just as in all previous times--modern America will insist on seeing Lincoln on its own terms. Consider C.A. Tripp and his argument that Lincoln was gay. His book The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln begins with the fact that Lincoln during his late 20s and early 30s shared a bed with a young man named Joshua Speed. As President, Lincoln may also have shared his bed with a captain of his guard unit in Washington...