Word: adulthoods
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...school board truly wants to fight a gay-straight student alliance, it should speak out against it, not ban it. It should promote a discussion, not close off the topic without debate. After all, this is a high school. It is supposed to be preparing its students for adulthood and responsibilities in the real world. How can it succeed in its goal if it keeps taking away more and more of the students' power to decide for themselves...
Sport puts a premium on youth, delaying acceptance of adulthood's incumbent responsibilities...
...more horrific and unjust if suicide is involved. Jonathan Marc Sherman's tragic comedy "Woman and Wallace" examines the emotional fallout resulting from such a catastrophe through the youthful and neurotic sensibility of Wallace Kirkman (Jed Silverstein), a "Jewish boy from Jersey," whom we witness grow from childhood to adulthood in just over an hour and a half...
...composed solely of wooden cubes, a few props and colored screens, effectively evokes a child's world, but loses most of its relevance as Wallace approaches adulthood. However, the haunting presence of silhouetted heads behind the screens functions as the perfect atmosphere for Wallace's monologues. Looking at the silhouettes is like staring into Wallace's mind and seeing the different women that have come into his life: Victoria (Markella Zanni), Sarah (Leah Altman), Lili (Hilary Weissberg) and Nina (Alexandra Marolachakis). They all fuse into one woman, Wallace's dead mother, of course...
...nonprofit Urban Institute recently examined 51 programs aimed at boosting achievement among black youths. Its conclusion? The best results come from long-term programs with intensive (that usually means expensive) services that guide a child into adulthood. Richard Majors, co-author of the study, says; "Our research shows that young men who go through mentor programs and manhood-training programs have higher self-esteem and grade-point averages and are less likely to drop out of school...