Word: adult
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...create environments in which more learning takes place, with more pleasure for everyone concerned. Anyone teaching at the college level is very likely to have been on the receiving end of many loving, approving, educationally productive looks. Our project is to encourage that child to become the adult who gives them. And that usually requires a revolution in consciousness. We all know that the revolution doesn't occur simply because a person does the work necessary to get an advanced degree in a special subject. Your doctoral robe gets you into a classroom filled with curious faces...
...aggressions of child? hood. "As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; They kill us for their sport." So the real subject of Morley's painting is not so much the death of people or the destruction of machinery as the general, "ineradicable ground of adult violence in the infant psyche...
Taking a two-year leave of absence, Mary Jo Bane, who specializes in distribution of social service funds, will administer an $11 billion dollar budget for welfare, Medicaid, child welfare, and adult social services, as executive deputy commissioner of the New York State Department of Social Services...
...central character is a cancer researcher (Sam Waterston) who has superficially mastered all he surveys in the adult world but who remains fixated on the griefs of his childhood. The set is a blasted-heath garden in which the fretful doctor's boyhood playthings-including building blocks that spell out his name-have been mortared into the walls, ostensibly by his long-dead mother. He ruefully explains: "It was her way of teaching me not to leave my toys outside." The audience for the premiere production, at Harvard University's American Repertory Theater, soon realizes that this remark...
...finally happened The Harvard men's squash team lost a match But it wasn't just any match--it was the National Amateur Championships in Cleveland, and it lost in the finals to a team of the best adult players from Mexico...