Word: younger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...might be possible to sympathize with Adam and the things that disturb him if he were about 15 years younger. The Boys and Their Baby might turn into a sort of 1980s Catcher In The Rye. But Adam is 30 years old, a college graduate, yet he seems completely incapable of making decisions on his own. So what does Adam do? Like a typical child who can't handle his problems, Adam just picks up and leaves Boston, fleeing to San Francisco where he moves in with his college roomate with whom he hasn't spoken in over a decade...
...when he tries to put the Fortas affair into a historical context, rather than a crassly political one. He notes that Fortas fell victim to what amounted to a swing of the pendulum in American politics, when the "whales" of the Senate saw their power pass away to a younger generation and when the liberalism of LBJ and JFK was replaced by a conservatism of which we may only now be seeing the last vestiges...
...choice is more than a mere wanting. It is a profound longing, a matter of identity. David's younger brother Stephen wants only to play football for West Virginia and go on from there to play professionally, even if it means leaving the hills and the coal mines. David wants his father's identity, his land and context...
...around one another," says Larry disapprovingly. "Several gotten pregnant. I think America as a whole has dropped her values. Now it seems all right to have premarital sex. Mothers goin' along with it. I believe it is our responsibility to teach our children the values when they are much younger...
...indifferent. Many are at the mercy of economic changes. Today 50% of working mothers have husbands earning less than $20,000 a year. To support a family, buy a house and prepare for a child's future education, two incomes become essential. More than half of women with children younger than three years old work outside the home. But because society, and especially the workplace, has not caught up with these changes, the job of raising children has become more complicated...