Word: agee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their isolation, the boys seemed to suffer an erosion of self-esteem. Partly it was their physical awkwardness: Michael and Kip were small for their age; Mitchell and Luke were pudgy. Furth describes Mitchell as "a sensitive, soft 13-year-old"; in Arkansas, where little boys are taught to be flinty and stoic, softness is a handicap. Luke and Michael were teased about their physical appearance (both were called "gay," the latter in the school paper...
...trouble began over rumschpringes, commonly known as Time Out. For young men and women anywhere from age 16 to their mid-20s, rumschpringes is a kind of prolonged joyride, one last opportunity for them to romp in the pleasures of the "real world" before time runs out and the church, and adult baptism, beckons. During this period of indulgence, it's understood that teenagers tread, oh, so lightly, into the realm of dating; that the boys are likely to answer the siren call of a well-tuned engine (forbidden to baptized churchgoers); and that a few might even dabble...
...solution to two problems. One was personal: the era's Catholic practice presented divine forgiveness and salvation as earned, a function of one's merit. Like many people, Luther was periodically paralyzed by fear that his merit might fall short. He was also angry that the church, as age-old intermediary between believer and God, was profiting from this fear. For a price, the appropriate cleric would perform merit-building practices like prayer, penance or pilgrimage on one's behalf. The sale of such "indulgences" financed many a medieval cathedral. Retreating to his New Testament, Luther considered St. Paul...
...biggest strain of being a manager, to someone who comes to it new in middle age, is that you must think constantly about others. You needn't necessarily think well of them or think kindly about them. It's not that stressful. But you must think something about others all the time. And you have to be in a good mood--or at least you have to pretend. No sulking in your tent like Achilles. There are superiors to impress and subordinates to maneuver (or the other way around). Being a middle manager is performance art. And the show must...
...outsider, we probably resembled a bunch of teenage misfits--delinquents who never quite matured. And maybe we were. Maybe we should just grow up and act our age. Maybe it is futile to try and go back to something that's long past...