Word: careers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very much in character with her direct, communicative style. She said, "Great. It's about time people got off their ass at Harvard. I think it's great. That's the one thing I missed--a lot of political involvement. In the years that I was building up my career, that seemed to fall by the wayside, and not it's real nice that I'm in a position of power, where I can do something. And a lot of other people are going to be getting involved also...
...Early adulthood. This is the summer of life when a man is at the peak of his biological and mental capacities, choosing an occupation and moving up the ladder of his career, forming a stable life structure, raising the next generation, establishing his place in society...
...theory of adult development, as Levinson emphasized in his speech at Harvard last week, is the concept of the Dream, and the related concept of the Mentor. In forming a concept of himself, a young man necessarily imagines an ideal life for himself, whether he focuses on his career, relationships, or his intellectual life is unimportant; so long as he creates a mental picture of the Dream he will pursue his development is on course. He will modify the Dream as he grows and changes and learns about his life and himself, and he may even change one dream...
...FIRST STEP was a small one. Over a period of a few weeks, I visited everyone in the dorm and was soon elected "dorm rep" for the Freshperson Entertainment Committee. This proved to be a good launching pad toward a career in organized activity. By sophomore year I was splitting time between the Diet Committee and SO. (Students of Oppression). Politics had never been my beat though, until recently. I was looking up the word 'aperture' in the dictionary to explain a joke I had just told when I came upon the word 'apartheid.' I began thinking...
...golf courses not to mention an atomic energy plant. These days young Paducans spend their time hunting birdies instead of bears. One of the new breed of golfing Paducans is David Paxton, a senior on the Harvard golf team who played some of the most superlative golf of his career this season. His teammates simply refer to him as "Paducah." "Paducah" Paxton took up the game just after dispensing with his swaddling clothes, wielding a sawed-off set of clubs handed to him by his father at the tender age of six. By the age of 13, he was heading...