Influences
Books from Sheehy’s Passages series remain largely influential in American culture. A Library of Congress survey named Passages one of the 10 most-influential books of our time.
Sheehy introduced terms that have passed into the American lexicon: Passages, Pulling Up Roots; Catch-30; Age 40 Crucible; Deadline Decade; The Sexual Diamond; Second Adulthood.
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Famous quotes containing the word influences:
“Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what actually happened, but of what men believe happened.”
—Gerald W. Johnson (1890–1980)
“Professors of literature, who for the most part are genteel but mediocre men, can make but a poor defense of their profession, and the professors of science, who are frequently men of great intelligence but of limited interests and education, feel a politely disguised contempt for it; and thus the study of one of the most pervasive and powerful influences on human life is traduced and neglected.”
—Yvor Winters (1900–1968)
“The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.”
—Max Lerner (b. 1902)