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She was known to hundreds of scholarship students as the unfailingly cheerful, helpful, and efficient person who greeted them in Weld 29, set up their papers, and straightened things out with the Bursar and other authorities. She had fun in her and energy, to spare, and was generous in her...
To spot a potentially delinquent boy years before he lands in court the Gluecks mainly pinpoint what they call the "five highly decisive" factors in family life: father's discipline, mother's supervision, father's affection toward his son, mother's affection, cohesiveness of the family...
The delinquents as a group were found to differ markedly from the non-delinquents in five major ways: socioculturally, temperamentally, in attitude, psychologically, and physically. Socioculturally, the offenders had been reared in homes of little understanding, affection, stability, or moral fiber by parents usually unfit to be effective guides or...
(Mr. Osborne is widely regarded as a deplorable cynic and naysayer, but in Cliff, who plays a wise, calm, and modest Horatio to Jimmy's Hamlet, he has created a character who must be unique in modern drama: a handsome young man who lives with a married couple, tied to...
Even after Glezos turned Communist, public affection for him continued. Arrested in 1949 for supporting the made-in-Moscow Greek rebellion of 1947-49, he was sentenced to death, but on the strength of his flag-snatching he got off with a term in jail.