Word: adulthoods
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...physiology lecture every time a friend lights up a smoke. Why no solemn words about the ill-effects of alcohol when those friends pour a drink? No one I know proudly displays cigarette butts in their room, but an empty Stoli bottle on the mantle is a symbol of adulthood. Few Marlboro posters grace the walls of Harvard dormitories, but who knows how many Harvard suites have a Budweiser poster or a neon beer sign...
...midpoint of the Class of 1990's Harvard career, the Reagan era closed with a benediction for the generation it has nurtured into adulthood. Broadcast to the national Republican convention in New Orleans was a final injunction. "Don't Worry, Be Happy...
...These three, along with members of both families, knot the skein of story lines in which soap fans so love to get ensnarled. The older generation has career and economic problems; the middle generation faces romantic difficulties; the youngsters are your typical mixed-up kids agonizing their way into adulthood in preparation for future disasters...
...actors fall 29,002 feet from a jetliner that has just been exploded by terrorists over the English Channel. They have an animated conversation as they hurtle toward earth; they land safely, but then their troubles begin anew. Along the way, the author writes about his schooling and young adulthood in Britain, about his love for Bombay and about the death of his father. He explores the roots ! of his Muslim faith and retells some legends of the Prophet Muhammad in a whimsical and sometimes outrageous way, though taking care to offer up these sequences as dreams, or even dreams...
...nation's high schools have long been a favorite hunting ground for the military. Caught between adolescence and adulthood, at an age when possibilities seem boundless but money often is not, graduating seniors are ideal candidates for recruitment into the armed services. With federally sponsored job-training and financial-aid programs virtually dismembered by the Reagan Administration, the military has sought to fill the void by stressing its willingness to outfit men and women for high-tech careers and provide aid for higher education. Says Captain George Karpinski, an Army recruiter in the Atlanta area: "Seventeen- and 18-year-olds...