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...music was derivative, and that the funniest thing about them were their haircuts. It was the last gasp of an adult establishment that felt secure in dismissing anything new, scorning anything young; and the Beatles were both. (George Harrison, when he and his mates made their Sullivan debut, was younger than Kevin Jonas is now.) In the intervening decades, the mainstream has learned its lesson: not to deride what kids love but to embrace and exploit it. Just like Disney...
...When the story of Adams's and Breedlove broke, the most broadcast cause of public ire was the fact that Adams had lied about the relationship—not that he’d cultivated a homosexual liaison with a younger person. Yet the calls for Adams to resign and the media coverage of the issue have tinged the affair with a pallor of homophobia and judgment of Adams’s sexual behavior...
...doing so, Adams reverted to a stereotype about stereotyping and became the boy who cried bigot. I would venture that Adams was indeed correct in his assumption that bigotry would inform the media’s treatment of his alleged affair. Whereas older men who hit on younger women are thought of as sleazy (read: Bill Clinton), men who solicit young men are dubbed “lewd” or “perverted” (Larry Craig, anyone...
...Some of those veterans aren’t even playing for us right now. So that’s hurt us and set us back.”Upperclassmen started to peel off early in the season due to back, knee, and ankle problems, opening up positions for the younger players. While this is not an ideal situation by any means, Harvard could not have been in a better position to compensate for this misfortune, considering it has a top-25 recruiting class. “To lead the program at this point, it is very difficult for younger players...
...It’s sad,” MacDonald says. “I’m one of those older guys I used to look at when I was younger...