Word: seem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Part of the problem with The Boys and Their Baby is that it's difficult to sympathize with the main character. He seems like he has so many problems, but when you get right down to it and analyze them, they seem so meaningless. Adam Berg, is a 30 year old Yale graduate who just can't deal with his real world. It's not as if Adam has AIDS or is penniless or something. He is merely upset that his mother has remarried a man he doesn't like. And he is upset to find out that his girlfriend...
Furthermore, he just can't seem to find any job that suits him. Suzanne nags him to go to graduate school, but he is intimidated by her intellect. So he works as a phone repairman yet continually laments his fate and his inability to make the dreaded career choice...
...quit trying. Many students actually brag when they receive an F, as if it were a flag of proud defiance. Kids who wave it see no reason for caring how well they do. Life is pretty good right now, they conclude. Won't it always be this way? They seem immune to external motivation from parents or teachers. These children languish, blankly passing time behind their desks until a lure like drugs or gangs or other trouble leads them away...
...summer world was bright and fresh, and brimming with life. There was a song in every heart; and if the heart was young the music issued at the lips . . . Cardiff Hill, beyond the village and above it, was green with vegetation, and it lay just far enough away to seem a Delectable Land, dreamy, reposeful and inviting...
Women do not like George Bush -- but men don' t seem to think much of the Duke. Who will be hurt more? -- Former Defense Secretary Harold Brown defends Dukakis' foreign policy...