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...education process is informal. Washburn has shown, for instance, that primate curiosity-which in man would be called basic research-comes into play when the animal is well-fed and secure; only then is he in the mood to gratify this intellectual need. Similarly, the juvenile ape, observing grownup behavior, mimes it in his games. For this pleasurable educational system, modern man has substituted the discipline of the classroom and the material rewards of grades, both of which, in Washburn's view, offend man's basic biological nature...
...clearing out. "I haven't got too many years of singing left and I have to take care of myself." That will include stops at the spread in Palm Springs, the yacht, homes in London, Acapulco, Manhattan and, best of all, San Francisco. "Now there's a grownup, swinging town...
...combined for the particular occasion really go together. Designer Sant'Angelo goes Chessie one better by inviting girls over to his apartment for dressing-for-the-party parties. The girls swap clothes freely, creating costumes for each other and parading around like little children turned loose in a grownup's closet. Sometimes, the designer admits sheepishly, they get so carried away with dressing that they never make the party...
...lectured, she carried her word: "I would like to see the day when every blind child has an opportunity of an education and every blind grownup has the chance for training and job placement." The American Foundation for the Blind appointed her counselor on national and international relations, a title that conveyed only a hint of her activities; governments from Washington to Tokyo gave her medals...
...soon as we began to understand the value of adolescence, we also began to understand the difficulty of having one foot in childhood and one foot in the grownup world. Even the saying that this stage of life is not a disease but a part of growing up, is a description of how troubling adolescence is for him and for us, i.e., the grownups. He has an infinite capacity for devising bedevilling situations and moral conundrums for the conventional adult world which makes our problem in coping with him infinitely stressful...