Word: childhood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bingo night at the community center. If you're old enough to dread growing up, odds are you already have. After all, Peter Pan, the classic fantasty about a boy who never grows up, was written by a nostaligic old man. The dread of adulthood and the idealization of childhood into a utopian never-never-land is a phenomenon only adults can experience...
...employee and Communist Party member, charged that Elizabet, whom he divorced in 1997, had "kidnapped" Elian--and he argued that the child must be returned to live with him. Relatives in Cuba, contacted by TIME, described Elian as a shy but affable and studious first-grader whose most recent childhood passion, besides baseball, is making and flying kites. Standing under a picture of revolutionary hero Che Guevara, and presumably coached by Cuban officials, Juan Miguel declared that he wants Elian to enjoy the free education and health care of his homeland...
...family inspiration helped. Liza remained equally close to her father and her mother after they divorced in 1951. The sets of her father's movies were her childhood playground: "I threw confetti in the American in Paris ballet," she recalls. "On The Long, Long Trailer I think I was playing hopscotch when the camera went by, but he may not have used that take." While her mother gave her practical presents, her father showered her with costumes from his lushly designed movies and would improvise bedtime stories from ideas that she threw out. "I fought my whole life...
...specific policy proposals, which sparked a dispute among staff members over whether the book should therefore be vetted by the full array of official policy committees; the President ruled no. Aides complained that some proposals went too far, such as one for a program to end racial differences in childhood educational achievement that reached far beyond current budget plans. There wasn't even agreement on whether to emphasize the remaining problems or focus on the progress. "The President," says Edley, "will have to decide whether the glass is half empty or half full." That's if he ever gets back...
...Dorm room beds are tiny and constricting, but the residents of Quincy 601 still revel in the childhood joy of diving into a giant bed covered in pillows. The increasingly infamous "Pillow Pit," also known as "The Pillow Palace," is filled with the pillow fighting and the giggling of a middle school pajama party. The pit is the brainchild of David A. Sivak '00, who constructed the area with a base of mattresses that contains, at present, 48 pillows. This fluffy pit submerges guests in the common room. In his suite with five other girls, his roommate Dan B. Baer...