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...Richard M. Nixon showed Americans that it is possible to sling enough mud, in public and in private, to rise from the gutter into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. And the now-pardoned president also consistently set a model of self-interest that encouraged young Americans not to sacrifice their early adulthood to social causes like the Peace Corps but rather to the womb-like safety and promised material rewards of professional school. Gerald Ford has only nudged our national self-image up a small notch from the Nixonesque nadir; today we are encouraged to be the kind of team player...
...affair with a leathery radical. A communal farm in Vermont claims Ginny next, and ultimately she sinks into a mindless marriage with the local snowmobile salesman. "The incidents in her life to date," Ginny fatuously decides, "resembled the Stations of the Cross more than anything else. If this was adulthood, the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that now she could eat dessert with out eating her vegetables...
...angst of the student who doesn't know what he is going to do. The psychology of the mixed-up student's dilemma fascinates Fisher, who himself has flitted from one high-ranking administrative job to another in the white-collar constellation. On the eve of limited adulthood, Fisher says, these perturbed children suffer because they must narrow down their fantasies about future occupation to concrete possibility...
...commission's report shows that in science, mathematics, social studies and citizenship-four of the eight areas studied-the sexes are roughly equal at age 9. But by age 13, girls fall behind in these areas of study in a relative decline that continues through adolescence and into adulthood. In reading ability and knowledge of literature, girls are ahead of boys until age 17, but the same pattern of relative decline shows up as they grow older. Only in writing ability and music do females outperform males in later years...
Hearts of the West, funny, jaunty and a little wistful, concerns Lewis' pleasantly unlikely adventures in movieland of the 1930s. Lewis (Jeff Bridges) is not far enough into adulthood to know he is there, but in any case his head is full of the prime fantasies of good pulp fiction. He wants to be a writer, particularly of cowboy stories, most specifically like those of his idol, Zane Grey. Lewis has the master's formula down pretty tight ("One thing leads to another, and pretty soon he's got a story"), and can emulate his prose with...