Word: adulthoods
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...atworst as a vicious misogynist; he is cast asanti-Semitic; he is pronounced guilty of writingAfrican-American and native African characters outof his works and of racism when he does includethem. And even when Hemingway is not offendinganybody, he has been labeled infantile. Writerslike Tobias Wolff mark their adulthood at thepoint when they cease to be entranced byHemingway's bravado; and perhaps many--like PeterMathiessen, who smugly pronounced the author a"brave coward"--take a certain joy in Hemingway'ssuicide, which proves once and for all that theman was really a posturer, masking fear withmachismo...
This is a terrible fallacy, and one which seniors begin to pick up on as they face the fact that adulthood and post-college life lie on their horizon. Senior spring, after theses are handed in and extracurricular commitments have more or less dwindled away, is a time for reflection. It is a time during which we who are soon to graduate can look at the experience we have had, and determine what was important and what was not; which classes and relationships taught us the most; and, on a more general level, it is a time during which...
...dark threads (ill health, mental instability, suicide) do run through the Frost family story. In the midst of much suffering and bad luck, Parini finds Frost to have been, on the whole, an admirable husband and father, deeply engaged in his children's upbringing and supporting them far into adulthood...
...work, where it's easier to demonstrate ability through performance over time. They also have a more pronounced effect on the lives of people who score very low or very high than on the lives of people in the middle. Still, it's hard to grow to adulthood in the U.S. without ever having taken an IQ-derived standardized test (any test that has words like "ability" or "aptitude" or "reasoning" in its name). In a country with an unusually decentralized education system in which you can't be sure who is studying what where, IQ tests are the easiest...
Filip's songs are about the pains of growing up. In one, she adopts the voice of Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz. Awaiting the tornado of adulthood, she sings, "I'm not sure I’ am ready...