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When Weinstein gets serious, he even reflects on why he's usually so funny. "I suppose I'm trying to find a way to postpone adulthood," he says. "Which explains to a degree why I haven't been really happy here at Harvard People are too intent on being adults...
...Almost immediately Ted was shipped off to Georgia Military Academy, just outside Atlanta. He arrived six weeks after the school year started, the last entrant to his class, with an alien accent; he knew trouble was ahead, and came out fighting. Thus began a pugilistic attitude that lasted into adulthood. Turner was all the more motivated to establish his virility with his fists because he found no glory on the playing field: he tried football, basketball and baseball and was lackluster at each. He finally turned to a sport that required no special physical talent, just brains, determination and nerve...
...backs up a few years. Daniel finishes his freshman year at a Boston college, spends the summer at his family's vacation house and returns to school. Few periods are as difficult to pin down as that brief limbo between the end of youth and the beginning of adulthood. The mysteries of the physical and the spiritual, the image and the imagination are fresh and beckoning...
...questions like what the team colors were of teams before the formation of the National Football League. He says the test is to insure that they'll have something to talk about when they're married, but it appears more like a matter of entering a frightening stage of adulthood, and falling back on the only thing he can count on--football...
...trend toward family crisis dramas and space adventures with the ungainly title Divorce Wars. The books on pop self-analysis which have bloated the "psychology" section of bookstores are the attempt of this generation to try and adjust rock-and-roll ethics to "parenting" and the rest of adulthood. It doesn't work. The two forty-bound protagonists of this latest addition to the tiresome genre keep talking about "learning to grow up." We seem to have no choice but to watch the maturing of our elders, the best-documented and most self-conscious generation to date, for a good...