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Trillin candidly describes his own fumbling attempts to adjust: "I was remarkably easy to fool." Others, like Denny, never found their feet again. His jobs grew less significant, and influential friends dropped away. He never married. At a Big Chill session, one mourner suggests that the deceased had "unreasonably high standards." Another concludes that he was a suppressed homosexual. Still another observes that despite the scholar-athlete's "million-dollar smile," he was an emotional basket case, suffering from clinical depression...
...lead them to assume a spurious responsibility for straightening you out, or at the very least to pressure you into solving everyone's "problem" by having you deny it again. This is tiresome and painful, and almost nothing you say will make a difference, but eventually they will adjust. The rate of suicide among gay teens is appalling, but there are no records of suicides by parents of gays. And once you and they have worked through all this, you may find that your relations with your parents are better than most people...
Former President Derek C. Bok lobbied successfully for a seven-year delay before the law became enacted, so that Harvard could adjust to the imminent changes. But time is ticking away, and in some professors' eyes, the University has yet to present a satisfactory package of benefits that would induce them to retire voluntarily. The Faculty needs to continue to seek solutions--and faculty nearing the former retirement age should take into consideration the needs of their departments and of the University...
Teaching and learning are the keys for ex-convicts to adjust successfully to mainstream society, according to Mimi Silbert, president of the Delancey Street Foundation, in a speech last night at the Cronkhite Graduate Center...
...prison system is not effective, because it does not educate the prisoners in any skills for the future, Silbert said. They often have low selfesteem and find it difficult to adjust to life outside their cells...