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...maturity. If you have ever gone to a general store and have seen black welfare recipients--usually black mothers--buying food, you will notice that it is primarily junk food. There are few essential nutrients contained in their diets which most people learn are necessary once they reach adulthood. These members of the African-American community are still stuck in infancy and childhood and have not matured enough to the point of adolescence where they can be confident to accomplish on their own and by their own merit...
...post-partisan politics. Since the two party system only promotes the kind of shrillness we have come to know and loathe, why not go beyond the two party system? The move from partisanship to post-partisanship suggests a grand growing up, a national transition from late adolescence to early adulthood...
TIME: Does 72 feel very different from 62? Dole: [Chuckles] According to Gail Sheehy, you just take off 10 years. [According to] her new book New Passages, if you're 70, you're 60; if you're 60, you're 50. Your second adulthood starts when...
Burger did not plan to do what he did, other than being a lawyer. But he came to adulthood in a time when a young man of energy bumped into opportunity around every corner. His pal Harold E. Stassen, another bumptious Minnesota lawyer, became one of the hottest young Governors in the nation, and Burger was floor manager for Stassen's unsuccessful run for the 1948 Republican presidential nomination. Dwight D. Eisenhower's men noticed Burger and brought him to Washington after Ike's election in 1952. Burger was surprised and somewhat mystified when Richard Nixon plucked...
Interspersed with these vignettes of urban romance are a few stories that provide a psychological history for Beller's characters. These pieces trace the young adulthood of Alex Fader, a fatherless only child who tries hard to suppress his love for an often elusive mother. Ultimately, though, Alex forges an enviable closeness with her, and that leaves the reader with hope for all the floundering, grownup versions of him in this spirited collection...