Volume 22, Number 1 · February 6, 1975
The Boy Who Couldn't Grow Up
By Alison Lurie
In every society, every century, some time of life seems to embody current cultural ideals and has superior prestige. In ancient China, we are told, the greatest honor was given to old age; America in the 1960s admired teenagers, attributing to them boundless energy, political altruism, and a polymorphously joyous sensuality.
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