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Occasionally, IP victims devise make-shift methods for coping with their problems. One high-priced middle-age executive believes deep down that he is a child masquerading as an adult. His solution: after an arduous day of pretending to be a grownup, he rushes home to eat Popsicles and play video games. It works for him, but for most IP sufferers Clance and Harvey would prescribe more standard measures: therapy, self-help groups and understanding friends. Clance also suggests that her patients remember a useful observation of W. Somerset Maugham's: "Only a mediocre person is always at his best...
...spent most of his adult life on college campuses, teaching and writing: poems, critical essays, reviews, a novel (Pictures from an Institution), translations and children's books. His visible eccentricities were mild. He appeared vain about his looks. As a young man, he turned himself out like a river boat gambler, slim, dark, natty and sporting a pencil mustache; in his late 30s he raised a bushy, patriarchal beard. When he was excited, his high, piercing voice had a tendency to rise in volume and exaggerate his Tennessee twang. For the most part, though, he kept his inner fires banked...
...million this year; spin-offs, paraphernalia and even a TV show are in the works. And Makow is keeping busy by developing a children's edition, because, he says, "they are concerned about right and wrong, and this gives great insight on what it's like to be an adult...
Most teens still do their drinking when adults aren't around. But many parents have concluded that teen drinking is inevitable, and given the options, they prefer to have their kids drink at home under adult supervision rather than in a park or parking lot. Some parents even play host to "tent" parties, at which they confiscate car keys and provide a place for kids to spend the night. Public opinion, however, seems to be against that approach, and state and local governments are beginning to enact laws designed to stem underage drinking by targeting adults. Adults face six months...
Harper, who played the adult Junior, conversed with Mitchell about “living your dream” after the film. Harper, whose untraditional career path has brought him marked success in his life, noted the need for individuals to make that first, sometimes difficult step in the process...