"The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys " digs into the flaming recesses of the adolescent mind with such acuity, compassion and good humor that it will plummet you back to that painfully awkward age when hoarded tidbits of bogus sexual lore had the weight of magic passwords to the kingdom of heaven.
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In his study of Iris Murdoch's fiction, Peter J . Conradi calls " An Accidental Man " " marvellous " for its combination of " moral passion and idealism " with " absence of illusion and moral skepticism ", which results in an dryly ironic tone reminiscent of Henry James's " The Awkward Age ".
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Canon J . Vance, who became headmaster of Cardinal Vaughan School in 1928 : " In those days I questioned young men closely before recommending their applications for short-term commissions because of a lurking fear that they might be forced to start life again at an awkward age, for Donald I had no misgivings whatever.
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Murphy plays a San Francisco physician who lives in a tastefully decorated Victorian house with his wife, a lawyer, and their two daughters, the older of whom, Charisse, is played by Raven-Symone, who boosted the cuteness of " The Cosby Show " in its later seasons after the original Huxtable kids had reached their awkward ages.
