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...Young people, by and large, are excited about beginning their adult lives, and get over any disappointment at being at a lesser-known school the minute they check in at their new dorm,” Mathews said...
...overstate their case. But barnyard gesticulations—especially those denied by the party accused of making them—are no grounds for the rescinding of a leadership award. Etiquette is not leadership, and the Alumni Association would do well to consider whether it wishes to recognize those adult skills possessed by leaders—charisma, boldness, conviction—or the neatly-folded hands of docile children...
Even after he has dynamited his life, he can't resist the temptation to bounce the rubble, which leads to an unbearable episode that mixes a loaded gun and young children left without adult supervision. But at the mercy of their longings, Spencer's adults are unsupervised too. It falls to Kate to voice the suspicion that love may be "the firings of the foulest, most primitive part of the back brain." It falls to us to look on in wonder at the damage done...
...upsurge of interest in senior theater stems from several factors, according to experts. "There is a larger population of people 50 and older," says Ann McDonough, director of gerontology and senior adult theater at UNLV. "These people are healthy and active and want to either return to something they did earlier in their lives or take up something that they always wanted...
...with other techniques to address the needs of elderly parents living far from their baby-boomer offspring. Caring from a Distance, which started a year ago, is putting together a database that could potentially match elderly family members with volunteer caregivers, says president Ted Patton. "Let's say one adult child is living in New York and has a mother in California, and another baby boomer is in California and has a father in New York. The two could offer to be the eyes and ears for each other's family member, checking in with them on a regular basis...