Word: adulthoods
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...than any other creatures, childhood is, above all, a disability: curable in time, to be sure, but marked, while it lasts, by ignorance, inexperience, inadequate stature and musculature and (especially in the cuddlier stages) incontinence and all-around fumble-thumbed incompetence. Hence the need to set childhood off from adulthood as a condition requiring major investments of resources and energy on the part of all who have survived it. Making full-blown humans out of 7-lb. lumps of flesh is not a job for a slow-witted species: it takes a village, as the lady said, not a village...
...that we called 'home' was a place to store books and papers, share an occasional meal, play chess, scan the newspapers, watch television, make love in haste and detachment, then fitfully fall asleep." This idea of college as a place to rest while stuck in transit between childhood and adulthood certainly strikes a strong cord among students...
...ideal college should serve as the final mediator in a gradual process of maturation. It should be the last bridge between unsophisticated adolescence, often a time when one learns of mass culture and peer acceptance, and unprotected adulthood, when one's purpose and schedule are entirely at one's own determination...
...Fisher: "We're less threatening to the women, and we're able to see female rites that men would be forbidden to see." They're less threatening to men as well, and as a result have gained access to such rites as Maasai circumcisions and the male passage to adulthood in Benin...
...sophomore-year marijuana smoking might have responded with, "Sure, I did a little weed in college." But no. The next pol acknowledged that he had "experimented" with marijuana in college. Like the first pol, he said that he experimented very few times and that, in the full wisdom of adulthood, he regrets that he experimented at all. The next pol said the same thing. So did the pol after that...