Word: ben
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Spock was born in New Haven, Conn., in 1903, the oldest of six children of a well-to-do railroad lawyer and his wife. The home was "child-centered" and loving, he says, but his mother was a "fiercely opinionated, moralistic, rather tyrannical person." Young Ben and his siblings ate separately from their parents, had to be in bed by 6:45 each evening and were even forbidden to eat certain foods, such as bananas, until they were twelve. This had the predictable result of inducing a certain amount of bananaphobia as the twelfth birthday approached. Spock concludes: "There must...
...permissiveness arose that may have contributed to the great campus tantrums of the late 1960s. Says Pediatrician T. Berry Brazelton of Harvard Medical School: "The parents I was taking care of in the '50s were terribly concerned that their children be pleased at all times. But that's not Ben's fault. If you look in the book, there's nothing permissive in there...
...eight Oscars were not a record; 1959's Ben-Hur set the mark with eleven little gold-plated statues. But it was a triumphant rebound for Forman, 53, the Czechoslovak director whose five awards in 1976 for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest were followed by two commercial disappointments, Hair and Ragtime. "The Academy members are fans of people like Milos who take chances and succeed," says Director Ivan Passer, one of Forman's best friends. "They like Cinderella stories, and they like to make them come true. That was in their power this year, and they...
...that it was caused in part by problem loans to two of the bank's directors. Federal regulators have launched a probe to see whether the loans, which carried below-market interest rates, were illegal. The episode marks a fall from grace for an industry hero, Texas Commerce Chairman Ben F. Love, who had a longstanding reputation for cautious lending. Investors regard Love's stumble as a bad sign for Texas banks in general. Says Robert Walters, an analyst at Austin's Sheshunoff investment firm: "The problem loans are startling. It is more than a minor disappointment...
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