Word: adult
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Frank Trippett's Essay "The Young Adult" [April 6] must not go unchallenged. The youth of today have chosen not to be looked upon as a phase, as the heroic hypocrites of the '60s were. Changing the world will take more than going barefoot and carrying signs. The '60s generation gave up their cause and were absorbed into nothingness. Theirs is not a hard act to follow. It deserves not to be followed. We are smarter...
...oiled the engines every six months," says Systems Engineer Stan Soderberg, 55, who has spent his adult life caring for the big plane. A parachute rigger fresh out of the Navy, he signed on with Hughes at 21, in 1946. "We ran the controls every other week, hydraulics one week and electrical the next." Soderberg is a lean, intense fellow who wears an airman's jumpsuit. He saw the plane's only flight, on Nov. 2, 1947, when Hughes lifted it off the water of Long Beach Harbor and flew it at a height...
...captured their loyalty and branded them for life. They don't have to see the beauty in the harsh New England weather or the luxury of their libraries and playing fields. And to their own loss, many do not understand why they will spend so much of their adult lives trying to recapture that flawless sixth-form year. "It's downhill for a lot of people after prep school. There's a definite sense of loss," one of our roommates likes to observe...
...Beate Uhse Co. dominates West Germany's lively sex industry; in the past decade, annual sales have more than quadrupled, to $57.5 million. Her empire includes a computerized mail-order business that processes up to 4,000 orders a day for items like condoms and vibrators, 15 adult theaters, 31 retail sex shops, a publishing house and a pharmaceutical laboratory that develops new love potions...
...youngsters as a whole have not showed much inclination to give themselves to public causes even as voters, let alone as life crusaders. While they occasionally barge into the national consciousness during such rites as their pre-Easter pilgrimage to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., they seem to live mostly outside adult view. As a result, they have given the larger society no clear impression of what they are like...