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...great defender of sexual minorities,” said Adams House Assistant to the Senior Tutor Otto F. Coontz. “She was very supportive of anyone dealing with any kind of issues...
...shouting has already started. Family historian Stephanie Coontz, author of The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap (Basic) questions the value of papering over conflicts for the kids' sake. Sure, some parents can pull it off, but how many and for how long? "For many couples," Coontz says, "things only get worse and fester, and eventually, five years down the road, they end up getting divorced anyway, after years of contempt for each other and outside affairs...
...Coontz doesn't believe in social time travel. She doesn't think we can go back to Leave It to Beaver after we've seen Once and Again. Unlike Wallerstein, whose investigation is deep but rather narrow (the families in her original study were all white, affluent residents of the same Northern California county, including non-working wives for whom divorce meant a huge upheaval), Coontz takes a lofty, long view of divorce. "In the 1940s the average marriage ended with the death of the spouse," Coontz says. "But life expectancy is greater today, and there is more potential...
...easily the most humble and unassuming person I have ever met," said Otto Coontz, the assistant to the Adams House senior tutor...
Friends of Narayan will perform a rendition of Billy Joel's "The Longest Time"--a song which, according to Coontz, had special significance for Narayan...