Word: closers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHAT all this amounts to is that teen-agers are, well, "teen" for much longer than before. That state, the gap between puberty and marriage, used to be about 6 years for women, 9 for men. Now, those figures are closer to 10 and 12. Today's teen-agers have to spend 3 or 4 more biological years than their grandparents in the nebulous limbo between childhood and adulthood...
This broad social measure would force teens to support themselves at an earlier age, encouraging them to marry younger. Teens' mental growth would be in closer harmony with their physical growth, so that "education" would not hinder the maturation of teen-agers into adults...
...part of an incorporation of "culture" into consumerism. Books and paintings are not to be experienced, considered, even analyzed or simply enjoyed. They are a mark of status and can be consumed just like any other commodity. Literature and fine art have simultaneously been brought closer to and further from us. Now they are like the extravagant goodies behind the Bloomingdale's shop window. They are for all to see but for only a few to experience...
...Washington is as fast this year as it has been in past years, the heavies will be in a much more challenging race than the one they had yesterday. Despite the seven-second win, the Dartmouth crew kept much closer to the Black and White than almost everyone expected. That is something the heavies will have to get used to as they head West today...
...have to get used to rowing in closer races," Pugh said. "That's definitely what we'll need for the races in California...