Word: adult
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Where is the clientele "too adult" and professional, the crowd not collegiate enough, the atmosphere too relaxing, the menu simply not satisfying to the discriminating undergraduate palate? Where is there wine on tap instead of beer, Wheat Thins instead of nachos, hot dogs instead of hamburgers, and Gordon Lightfoot instead of David Bowie...
Calvin Stillman said in a recent interview that he believes his father, who gave Harvard cash gifts throughout his adult life, was unsure whether Harvard would even accept Black Rock, an "unproductive forest." As a result, he arranged to give the forest only after his death...
...three are all together for the first time in years. Each of the three has grown in entirely different directions; none of them has adjusted well to adult life, but they all have adjusted differently...
...trying to understand the problems that society must address," Sackler said. "I believe that their ability to address these problems is enhanced by the recognition that primitive man was not so primitive. Physiological evolution is a very slow process, and we must not confuse technology with intelligence. The average adult caveman probably had superior reflexes and was sturdier than the average adult...
...know the 21 drinking age is the law but I still can't understand. If I'm old enough to get drafted, to be tried as a adult in court, and to see below Madonna's belly button, why can't I drink. It just doesn't seem fair. --Desperately Seeking Logi...