Word: adult
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their place, but their place was the end of the book review section, the bottom of the shelf and the back of the catalogue. Today that illustrated literature has become a $200 million business whose profits are often handsome enough to compensate for deficits in the sales of adult books. Says Frank Scioscia, sales manager for junior books at Harper & Row: "The children's book business has enjoyed a consistent increase in sales, even though school funds have dried up, inflation is hurting, and local funds are not available. Prose, poetry and pictures for the young may be paying...
...form urges "every morally decent adult and teen-ager in America" to promise to boycott about 100 products for three months. As a reminder, the members of the movement get a wallet-size card listing products that are outlawed by the movement. Included are such familiar American Home items as Dristan, Anacin, Chef Boyardee, Wizard air freshener and Woolite, and General Foods' Gravy Train dog food, Kool-Aid, Maxwell House coffee, Birds Eye frozen foods and JellO. (Asks an outraged General Foods executive: "How can anyone consider Jell-O un-American?") In Dayton, the Belmont Church of Christ sent...
...children, shelter them, nourish them, educate them, serve as models for them and otherwise turn them into the next generation - a hopeful and sometimes painful drudgery that is invariably hard on narcissists. The aging baby boomers are now daddies and mommies with careers to build and all kinds of adult banalities to face: failures and divorces and alcoholisms and, yes, now deaths...
...singularly uneventful. The youngest child and the only girl in a family of gifted brothers, she never married, had no children, and produced no lasting body of work. Except for a brief period teaching a history correspondence course to under-educated American women, she spent most of her adult life keeping house for her father and suffering from nervous attacks. William, her eldest brother, became America's foremost psychologist and one of the leading philosophers of the nineteenth century; another, Henry, now ranks among the greatest novelists in the English language. Alice, lacking their confidence and powers of expression, became...
...birth, as a gift from the most primitive part of his brain, a child knows the elements of survival: he must eat, drink and reproduce. His early life is filled with the imposition of rituals: toilet training, religious instruction, social communication and compromise. By the time he is an adult, he knows most of the games people play: how to dress and cook, shake hands, argue with a colleague, plead with a lover, break things, break up, make up, attack, escape or withdraw. In each "free" action, he is replaying the history of the race as stage-managed...