Word: shelteredness
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Who knows what lies ahead? When I think about it, I am engulfed by a sea of fear, insecurity and nostalgia. It is hard to leave the only thing you have really known for four years to tackle a powerful and frightening world, from which we have been sheltered during...
This sad, self-deprecating reality first hit me when "Beverly Hills 90210" soared to popularity. It was brought into sharper focus by Bob Dole's convention speech and his oft quoted characterization of a "core of the elite" within the Clinton administration "who never grew up, never did anything real...
We in the "elite" should be grateful for our sheltered existence. We should also recognize the limitations that this existence imposes. Maybe then we will complain a little less and cease wallowing in the odd culture of disquiet that we have created. In 1969, the year after the Tet Offensive...
What makes this combination particularly shameful is that money can buy so much of the pleasure and freedom that ordinarily belong to the young. Poor children living in scary neighborhoods have to grow up fast. But affluent grownups can prolong their own childhoods through years of higher education and sheltered...
Without doubt, the environment here in East Baltimore is different from the sheltered one in which I grew up. In one lesson, in which Karen goes over parts of the female anatomy, one woman pipes up, recognizing a term--that's the one the dirty old man on the corner...