Fifty-one years ago I sat in the movie theater with my 17-year-old girlfriend at the time, who really didn’t want to be there because this was a sixties film and she was more of a fifties person. I pleaded and she gave in, though, which was one of the very few times that ever happened during that long-gone relationship.
The film was “The Graduate,” and early into the film there’s this classic scene where a very young Dustin Hoffman’s character, Benjamin Braddock, fresh out of college, is at a cocktail party. The grownups are pressing him to explain what he will do with the rest of his life. “That’s a little hard to say,” Benjamin said.