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...conducted elaborate observations of classified plants, herbs and trees, completed many journals. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said of Thoreau, he knew the exact date when each plant within 30 miles of Concord would blossom. And he remained close to his family and friends. In the woods he became more adult...
...this type of regression contains one immense surprise: the resulting child-adult turns out to be not the radiant and innocent child Jean-Jacques Rousseau imagined but rather a hard, half-blind, furiously offended, rancorous, enraged infant capable of any atrocity. As the late Austrian child psychoanalyst Melanie Klein noted, the thwarted infant feels a desire to tear up everything, wipe out both parents...
...kill grown people at random with concealed explosives is a cunning acting-out of that secret longing. Hitting out at others from hidden places happens more and more often, especially on the Internet. There, ugly and hostile words emerge from people no one can see. The decency of the adult in community has always depended on the fact that other adults...
Reared by separated parents whose fuzzy New Age philosophy was that children should follow their bliss, Jessica was encouraged to pursue an adult ambition that ill fitted her. After her death so many of the bright words that preceded the trip take on a grimly poetic quality. Her father, in Cheyenne after the first leg: "This started off as a father-daughter adventure, and it's gotten wonderfully out of hand." Jessica, to the Times of London: "I'm going to fly till I die." Her father: "I think I finally got my job description in order as a parent...
...assume that the student staffers behind the reserves desk each earn $7.50 per hour and the adult book checker takes home $15 per hour, figures which are safely on the high side. If we increase wages to $10 and $17.50, respectively, for work during the grave-yard shift, there is an hourly burden of $37.50. This amounts to a weekly cost of roughly $2,600 for the additional hours needed to keep Lamont open 24-7. The whole college year can be had for less than...