Word: adults
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What kind of an adult was she? It is well known that Gertrude's men, friends were friends, that she had little or no romance. "The sex appeal of Stonehenge," quipped one acquaintance. Of her religion, Gertrude said, "I have the failing of my tribe. I believe in the sacred rites of conversations even when it is a monologue...
Secondary school is the place for much elementary science instruction, Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, asserted. Better teaching and more skillful organization are the methods which are in order for colleges, he added. "It is high time colleges in this country grew up and took a more adult attitude toward improving instruction...
...wall-hung" units-bookcases, hi-fi cabinets, cupboards, etc. Even children's furniture is being upgraded after 30 years of standard pink and blue finishes. Big Manhattan, Chicago and Detroit stores are laying in heavy stocks of specially designed children's furniture, scaled down in size from adult pieces...
...small son staring meditatively at the dressmaker's dummy of her figure (thereafter, she hides it in the attic) to a seven-page description of a country-club dinner that is as savagely tedious as anything in Babbitt. There are sharply accurate glimpses of a far-from-adult grownup trying to cope with adolescents, of a dark, feminine hatred toward the machine. There is, above all, the nameless fear that somehow life itself is a mysterious machine that is not running as well as it should...
...Mothers' Sons examined the U.S.'s "mom-archie" society, attributed much mental disease to "momism"; of lung cancer; in Philadelphia. In Strecker's lexicon, a "Mom" was not a mother. "Mom is a maternal parent who fails to prepare her offspring emotionally for living a productive adult life on an adult social plane. A Mom does not untie the emotional apron string," and the result is an immature son or daughter. What is maturity? "It is the ability to see a job through, to give more than is asked for or required in any given situation . . . dependability...