Word: adult
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...should be quite evident by now that the United States has a vast literacy problem. In September of this year, the major networks and newspapers took part in a campaign to alert the general public to adult illiteracy--and to urge illiterate adults to seek help...
Cranes is also about "coming of age." As the young writer struggles to gain control of his talent, the young adult similarly searches for love and happiness. Like Philip, Leavitt frequently lacks perspective. Still, the parallel somehow makes the excesses of the author and his protagonist a bit more tolerable. Writing, like romance, works best when the participants are mature, confident, and know when to be silent. Both David Leavitt and his main character are still maturing...
...TODAY'S young adult, that can hardly be denied; an entire generation of college students has received much of its pop-cultural indoctrination from Animal House and such Saturday Night Live gang spinoffs as Trading Places. Landis' most successful work has come from his association with the late John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy and other SNL types. The Landis picture screened before the seminar, An American Werewolf in London, is a comedy-horror riot, simply plotted and masterfully executed, and laced with the kind of suburb-smart dialogue that engenders instant identification, from Great Neck, N.Y., to Encino, Calif...
...finally had the opportunity to break down the culture barriers when a schoolteacher in the village asked him to teach an adult English class she was organizing. He gladly agreed. The first day of the class, Sandburg recalls smiling, "everybody in the village came--the priest, the mayor and his three daughters, the feuding grocery store owners, the pharmacist and his girlfriend." Word of his class spread across the area, and gradually the local Italians began to trust him, talk to him, and even help him with his fieldwork...
...their late 30s, 40s, 50s. Carpenters. Plumbers. Garbage men. Cops. Most of them are exathletes of some distant, local repute who, like most adult American males, must now take their sports vicariously. They arrive at the bar early every Sunday morning. Over coffee and the morning papers, they discuss the day's odds. "Miami, 2 1/2 over Denver," says the bartender. "Who do ya like?" Opinions are given, denigrated, defended. One of the men, a former semipro baseball pitcher, says to another man who was once his teammate, "You know, I'm thinking of making a comeback next spring...