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...twelve-year-olds, and "going steady" at ever younger ages. American youngsters tend to live as if adolescence were a last fling at life, rather than a preparation for it. Historian Arnold Toynbee, for one, considers this no laughing matter, for part of the modern West's creative energy, he believes, has sprung from the ability to postpone adolescents' "sexual awakening" to let them concentrate on the acquisition of knowledge...
...before enticing him into bed. Adult homosexuality 18 a rough-go. Once initiated, a young person tends to remain homo-or bi-sexual, or returns to heterosexual activity long bearing the guilt and anxiety (however irrational) of his youthful experience. Neither consequence is happy; neither justifies Goodman's fling...
...intimations of creditable talent. But Director Vadim displays a flair for the banal that few actresses could conquer, particularly in his final scene: windblown and fully clothed, Bardot stands rigid amid the sun-drenched ruins of a Tuscan cathedral, while Hossein makes one of those long, long walks to fling himself at her feet...
...went with Sam, who was re-elected to the bench in 1954 after a brief fling as a splinter party mayoralty candidate. And so it might have gone with his request to stay on; over the years the Administrative Board of the Judicial Conference has demonstrated a remarkable reluctance to say no. But then, in a strongly worded letter to the conference, the judiciary committee of the New York City Bar Association recalled Sam's "demonstrated lack of judicial temperament, his habitual arrogance and discourtesy to lawyers and litigants, and his frequent embroilment in distasteful and grossly unjudicial incidents...
...last his credit ran out and his estates were sold. To finance a final fling in the music room, the zamindar sold his wife's jewels. His wife and son were visiting her family at the time, but he insisted that they pack up and come home for the affair. On the way down the river they were caught in a whirlpool and drowned...