Word: adulthoods
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...power of the atom more as opportunity than threat-and making that opportunity flower. Quite probably Japan, for instance, freed of its traumatic terror of atomic energy, would have been among the pioneers in peaceful nuclear research. Instead, an entire generation of children, all around the globe, has reached adulthood with a constant sense of lurking terror that has all too often surfaced in nightmares, or more maturely, in peace demonstrations...
...Challenge. Why can virtually all infants and many adults digest lactose, while other adults cannot? One theory is that the ability to produce lactase, and thus to digest lactose, is the response to a challenge: if a person continues to drink milk after he has been weaned and through adulthood, he will always be able to digest it. But if he goes without milk for months or years, he loses that ability...
...play is a story of growing-up, specifically O'Neill's development into adulthood-remembered from the healthiest light. The father is understanding, rather than a bourgeois drunk, the mother's tender loving care melts in your mouth, and young love triumphs over nastiness, brutality, and even, God forbid, prostitution. It is O'Neill's salute to the Catholic morality in which he was raised, but that morality has all the abiding qualities of an ice cube in August. And the editing in this production only keeps any virtue that is in the text of the play itself from surfacing...
...special feeling against Original Sin and for Original Innocence, seeing it exemplified in youth. William Wordsworth hailed a child of six: "Mighty Prophet! Seer blest!" That sentiment was obliquely echoed last summer at the Amherst College commencement; the class valedictorian declared: "Our parents and our teachers believe in adulthood and maturity: our wish is to stay immature as little children." It was meant metaphorically; yet it expressed a profound disillusion with the values of the "older generation"-or perhaps the lack of them. Given little to believe in or rebel against by their liberal parents, the young filled the void...
...Kidnap, the protagonist is obsessed by the search for a kidnaped four-year-old child, as well as a hunt for clues to his own early background, and the attempt to dekidnap himself and all his friends who have been stolen away from their childhood into an adopted adulthood. The excellent but dumfoundingly prolix result is an often funny, painfully intense psychological detective story filled with Double-Crostics, Nabokovian word games and revelations that tantalizingly obscure as much as they reveal...