Word: adult
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Children often have delusions of omnipotence, and perhaps adult megalomania derives from that, with a sinister admixture of the child's spirit of play and exhibitionism. As the economist Robert Heilbroner wrote, "Analysis finds . . . that even after the child separates the world outside from the world within, he continues to endow outside things with the magical property of being part of himself. To put it differently, he sees his personality as contagious, shedding something of itself on objects of importance. His possessions are part of his self...
What to make of this extraordinary labor? Coles is an erudite, fiercely moral man. But he is not a gifted interviewer, and, judging by his books, rapport with children does not come easily. His interviews feature the usual dutiful responses of youngsters to earnest adult interrogation. The long set speeches that his children give are cobbled together from fragments of speech, and Coles is honest enough to admit that the process is apt to make an interviewee sound like a miniature version of the author. In his pages, Coles- like Irish children offer much the same insight as Coles-like...
...pestiferous question of pornography. First it concluded that the city of Indianapolis had acted unconstitutionally when it sought to prohibit some pornography as a form of discrimination against women. Then the next day the court ruled that cities or towns are free to use zoning ordinances to confine adult-movie theaters to the fringes of towns...
...operators objected that the law barred them from the city's downtown, forcing them to unprofitable locations. Well, said the court, the town has no obligation to ensure "sites at bargain prices." The court's ruling in effect permits localities to scatter adult theaters, as Detroit has, or to concentrate them, as Boston has in its "combat zone." After the decision was announced, the mayor's office in Renton was deluged with more than 100 calls from officials of other cities looking for tips on zoning-ordinance design...
...Northeast, continue to feel that way. Two years ago Maine's Colby College and Amherst in Massachusetts banned Greek societies as "quite anomalous with the spirit of the university," in the words of one Amherst administrator. Adds Levin: "Fraternities provide a model for separatism that carries over into adult life...