Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week white-haired Dr. Gesell, father of two, published his 22nd book, this time on children of school age.*The Child from Five to Ten (with Dr. Frances L. Hg; Harper, $4) is a composite picture of 50 children of "high average or superior" intelligence from comfortably fixed families. Most of the youngsters went from the Clinic's guidance nursery to elementary public school. Dr. Gesell intends their behavior-biographies as rough guides for parents and teachers of the Five to Ten group. But he warns: "Every child has an individual pattern of growth, unique...
Seven. This is the subjective or Melancholy Dane age. Seven develops a charming pensiveness, becomes a good listener and also a bit of a thinker. Too-constant use of the eraser symbolizes his selfcriticism. Seven needs a perceptive second-grade teacher who can help him through this soul-wrestling. He likes to be near her, to touch and talk...
...Nine. His talents, creative and mechanical, assert themselves. His expanding community sense makes Ten receptive to ideas of social justice, group welfare, loyalty. Like Five, Ten is in good equilibrium. But unlike Five, Ten is no longer neuter. There is not much companionship between boys and girls of this age. Anticipating adolescence, they are acutely conscious of sex differences, keep apart by intermittent feuds and separatist truces...
...evidence, Young cited the average age of the nation's 6,800 sleeping cars: 22 years. Less than 9% of the cars are of modern, lightweight design. Only 764 replacements had been ordered as of June...
When things get too stuffy, this modern chronicler has only to shift his scene from Paris to Warsaw, London to Budapest, from the back room, of a leather-goods shop to the cockpit of a speeding plane. And as if the wonders of the Air Age were not enough, Author Romains has a fine eye for the contemporary intimacy of sex and politics...