Word: adulthood
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...with my tutor, thinking about the Luddites and about what I would smash, were I hefting an outsized sledgehammer named Enoch, the thesis process began to seem as ominous and inescapable as adulthood itself. It became the apple from the tree of knowledge that prefigures the expulsion from Paradise. (One of the advantages of a liberal-arts education is that it permits you to self-dramatize extravagantly...
...Sanrio Corporation explains that it is because Hello Kitty speaks from her heart, not her mouth.The western assessment of “kawaii” (roughly translated as “cute” in English) is largely negative, often described as a shallow interest based on avoidance of adulthood...
...than “men” and “women” just a harmless sign of our prolonged adolescence? Why insist upon calling myself a “woman” when I was in no real hurry to grow up and assume the burdens of adulthood...
...better or worse (and it is debatable), many Harvard students have spent most of their brief lives convinced of their inherent academic superiority. But unless they graduate with the broad range of skills necessary to distinguish themselves from their highly talented peers at other institutions, adulthood will sadly be, just as Brooks said, “the land of anticlimaxes...
...views and ideas should remain under constant scrutiny and deliberation in our own hearts and minds as we age. Should our opinions remain as they were when we were making our way through young adulthood, or examining our lives after a tour of duty in an ugly and needless war? I hope and pray not, it it the only way that I can find a glimmer of hope for people like George W. Bush—that maybe over time he will learn and grow and open his mind...