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Stability v. Stimulation. What kind of life would Mark have with his father? "We believe it would be unstable, unconventional, arty, bohemian and probably intellectually stimulating," answered Justice Stuart. Although the boy "would have more freedom of conduct and thought, with an opportunity to develop his individual talents," Stuart went on, "we believe security and stability in the home are more important than intellectual stimulation." While his grandparents will be more than 70 by the time he graduates from high school, "the Bannister home provides Mark with a stable, dependable, conventional, middle-class Middle West background and an opportunity...
...have to give up their kids. I don't drive a hay wagon, I don't go to church on Sunday, I don't grow corn in my backyard, and I've never voted for McKinley. This, in the eyes of Iowa, makes me a bohemian...
...child," declared the Iowa Supreme Court in the case of Mark Painter, 7. "It is not our prerogative to determine custody upon our choice of one of two ways of life." Then, seizing the prerogative it said it did not have, the court took Mark away from his "bohemian" father, Writer-Photographer Harold W. Painter, 34, and gave him to his "conventional" maternal grandparents, Dwight and Margaret Bannister, both 60. Rarely has a custody decision hiked legal eyebrows higher across the country...
Father Y. Father. Bohemian Harold Painter is, in fact, a bright, creative Californian with a superficially rootless history: his parents were divorced during his infancy; he grew up in a foster home, joined the Navy at 17, later quit college to become a newspaper reporter in Alaska and the state of Washington. In 1957 Painter married a fellow Anchorage reporter, Jeanne Bannister, despite Jeanne's parents' disapproval, and the couple lived and wrote together happily in Pullman, Wash. One day in 1962, while Painter stayed home tending Mark, his wife drove their daughter to nursery school...
...Frontiers of Faith will soon undertake a twelve-part series on modern ethics-including one program called "The Manly Art of Seduction," inspired by Hugh Hefner's Playboy philosophy. ABC's Directions offered a highly praised dramatization of the martyrdom of Jan Hus, the 15th century Bohemian reformer. Says Pamela Ilott, director of religious programming for CBS: "Our problem is not in coming up with new ideas but in finding enough Sundays to express them...