Word: adults
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...George E. Vaillant, professor of Psychology and director of the study of Adult Development, has conducted a 40-year study of 188 Harvard graduates...
...even Barbie can't keep up that whirlwind pace indefinitely. This season she has a place of her own, the "dream house" ($115) where she can ponder the more serious questions she faces as an adult. Barbie can cook dinner in her microwave oven, relax in her beauty bath, or read on her single...
...house has no study or office, but at least it has adequate closet space. There is a fur and jewels safe, and plenty of drawers for her status jeans (which come with this warning: "for tight-fitting fashions, especially pants, ask an adult for some baby powder and rub it on doll's legs before slipping on clothes.") There are even hangers for superstar Barbie's feather boa and disco dresses...
...thought no one liked me . . . Actually, I'd say I had pretty good evidence. The kids would chase me up into a tree and hit my legs with sticks until they bled. Besides that, I was ugly. With my glasses and permanented hair, I looked like a mini-adult. I had the same face I have today, and let me tell you the effect wasn't cute or endearing." Brother Harry, two years her junior, agrees: "In fact, she was pretty ghastly when she was young...
...strongly object to the statement in Susan K. Brown's article of November 2, 1979, that "most colleges today are happy to divorce themselves from responsibility for their students' social lives." Ms. Brown does not seem to understand that treating college students like the adults they have legally become is quite different from abandoning responsibility for them. Most student affairs professionals are deeply concerned with supporting both growth and adult behavior among young people. Your reporter is not justified in suggesting that those colleges with less restrictive social policies are directed by administrators who do not care about their students...