unyoung

unyoung

(ʌnˈjʌŋ)
adj
not young; not characteristic of being young
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Robinson (1998) noted in her essay "'Unyoung, Unpoor, Unblack': John Updike and the Construction of Middle American Masculinity" that Rabbit Redux, published in the earlier 1970s, is situated "at the very beginning of an era marked by a crisis in the symbolic (if not social) position of white masculinity" (p.
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