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...still the kid who ran away from home three times, I still left the Air Force early...when I finally enacted these postures publicly and was applauded for it, the cycle was completed and I could turn around and shake hands with myself and proceed to my adulthood...

Author: By David A. Demilo and Susan C. Faludi, S | Title: George Carlin's Coming of Age | 7/25/1978 | See Source »

...still had all of these problems adjusting to the way they had laid it out. So when I finally enacted these rebellious postures publicly and was applauded for it, the cycle was completed and I could turn around and shake hands with myself and proceed to my adulthood...

Author: By David A. Demilo and Susan C. Faludi, S | Title: George Carlin's Coming of Age | 7/25/1978 | See Source »

Many freshmen find that during their first year away from home they took the first steps crossing from the last stages of adolescence to adulthood. "It's a passing phase," says Katherine M. Elliot '81. "I'm glad to have had the experience of living in the Yard, and I'm glad it's over...

Author: By Susan K. Brown and Joshua I. Goldhaber, S | Title: With Six, You Get Eggrolls: Fox Packs Them In | 6/8/1978 | See Source »

Friends of both families hope that Princess Nur will light up Hussein's domestic life, which has been almost as stormy as his quarter-century reign over the embattled Hashemite kingdom. After establishing early in his adulthood a reputation as a playboy with a roving eye, the King was married briefly at 19 to a distant cousin. Following a divorce in 1957, he wed an English girl named Toni Gardiner and rechristened her Princess Muna el Hussein (Desire of Hussein). The King's desire waned in 1972, after he met beauteous Alia Toukan, 23, the U.S.-educated daughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JORDAN: Hussein's New Light from America | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

...change one dream for another, but the mental picture in his head acts as a sort of psychological carrot. A mentor, an older man who helps the growing adult fit into his society and who aids his development in many ways, may become critical in the phase of Early Adulthood. Besides the obvious functions he serves--integrating the adult into his career, teaching him, giving him a role model, smoothing the way for him, fostering his intellectual and moral development--the Mentor believes in the Dream, and in the dreamer, and makes the adult believe in himself. In a sense...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: It's Just This Crazy Phase I'm Going Through | 5/17/1978 | See Source »

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