Word: agee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Age of Discontinuity, Drucker...
FORTY CARATS. Julie Harris plays a middle-aged divorcee ardently wooed by a 22-year-old lad, while her teen-age daughter runs off with a wealthy widower of 45. Directed with crisp agility by Abe Burrows, the show is never less than civilized...
...This process builds fat, not muscle, and animals so topheavy that they stumble and fall before they are weakened with picas and banderillas and finally sword-slain in those moments of truth that are these days less true. Some bulls have even been sent out under the legal fighting age of four years. Last week, by government decree, breeders began to record every birth in an official register meant to end this practice...
...When a guy my age [40] looks twice at an ad, it's time for retouch or rewrite...
Ginott's basic point is that mature parents can easily increase their sensitivity to their children, becoming demi-psychologists who seek out the source of a child's behavior rather than concentrate on its surface expression. With a little common sense, he insists, children of any age can be intelligently decoded. When they refuse to cooperate with a mother getting ready for the evening, she should be alert for more than ordinary balkiness and attempt to sympathize with whatever is bothering them. One kindly mother in that situation, Ginott reports, calmed her kids by saying...