Written when Rattigan was all too conscious of being perceived as old-fashioned, "Man and Boy" is an uneasy mix of daring plot gimmicks and synthetically silky dialogue.
Mr. Peplowski, whose playing is sleeker and more outwardly virtuosic, is younger than Mr. Davern by more than 20 years, but unafraid to be perceived as old.
As a society we are too eager to embrace what is new and trendy and to throw out what is perceived as old and obsolete.
When we went back into the older apps, it really felt old, stale and archaic," says Alsbury. "We realized that if we don't move in a new direction and take the design along with it, our app, which has always been the leading app in what we do, is going to fall behind and be perceived as old.
Something in me changed at that moment—I realized I could be perceived as "old".
The subject matter was perceived as old-fashioned; today it appears timeless.
This past spring, a study showed that black boys are perceived as older and less innocent and another study showed that many white people don't believe black people feel pain in the same way as whites.
David Patrick Columbia, who chronicles the activities of the social set on his Web site, nysocialdiary.com, said: "We live in a culture where no one wants to grow up and be perceived as older.
"Look at them big ol' eyelashes!" Ms. Williams, who has a fondness for false eyelashes and wears green-rimmed glasses, declines to reveal her exact age, not because she's afraid of seeming old, she said, but because she wants to be perceived as older than she really is, especially among male inmates.
I don't think I've ever been perceived as older than that.
