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'Family Secrets' is thought provoking, well written, and remorselessly intelligent.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that secrets are toxic and break up families.
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Break Up
Toxic
Acknowledged
Secrets
Universally
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Historians who write about families are usually feminists who think in terms of gender relations.
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Feminists
Historians
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Political biography is in the doldrums. No one wants to read 800 pages or so of cradle-to-grave dead politics, especially if it's familiar stuff and has all been written about before.
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Familiar
Pages
Biography
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Romantic love came under attack, first from the Freudians and then from the neuroscientists, who said that being in love was a chemical reaction in the brain. Marriage is no longer seen as a lifetime commitment.
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Being In Love
Lifetime
Romantic Love
Love Marriage Romantic
Attack
Chemical
Reaction
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Adolescence was only recognised as a life stage in the early 20th century, when psychologists got down to work. Today's generational battle obscures the fact that adulthood is happening later. A new transitional stage has emerged after adolescence: the twenties.
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Adolescence
Battle
Twenties
Life Work Today
Emerged
Generational
Psychologists
Recognised
Transitional
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We live in an age of generational turmoil. Baby-boom parents are accused of clinging on to jobs and houses which they should be freeing up for their children. Twentysomethings who can't afford to leave home and can't get jobs are attacked as aimless and immature.
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Accused
Clinging
Turmoil
Afford
Aimless
Attacked
Freeing
Generational
Houses
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The main reason why historians have skated over the relationship of Victorian PMs with the press is that they haven't been looking for it. It takes a lecturer in media studies such as Paul Brighton to point out that media management was part of the job of a Victorian prime minister.
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Brighton
Lecturer
Management
Media
Prime Minister
Victorian
Historians
Main
Main Reason
Minister
Paul
Press
Skated
Studies
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To most of us, adulthood means being able to earn a living, possess a home, get married and rear children, and this implies having autonomy or control over one's life. In the 19th century, becoming an adult was celebrated as a liberation from paternal authority. Today we regard it more as a time of regret and stagnation.
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Adulthood
Authority
Autonomy
Liberation
Regard
Stagnation
Life Time Home
Celebrated
Earn
Get Married
Implies
Paternal
Possess
Rear
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