Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This small fugitive is one of a multitude of moppets whose searching, touching, and often embarrassing queries fill the pages of The Questioning Child and Religion (Beacon Press; $3), by Edith F. Hunter. Author Hunter, who has three questioning children of her own, is a graduate of Wellesley College and Union Theological Seminary. Currently, she is a curriculum editor for the educational division of the Council of Liberal Churches-the council that governs the two-year-old federation of the Unitarians and Universalists. Author Hunter thus speaks especially to religious "liberals" who are inclined to regard Jesus as great rather...
...words learned in a previous lesson, five . . . Discriminating writers are usually quite unable to play this sort of game, so the modern readers are not written by writers, but by tailors of words to suit the methodology and keep the reading matter within the range of the average child's vocabulary as determined by 'experts...
Hawthorne to Sam Johnson. A typical fifth-grade reader text today "introduces the child to no famous writers whatsoever except as (in the manual for teachers) it suggests supplementary library books." Thus, the modern educationists are actually cheating their pupils. "What makes any child want to read is not only information or a banal story about familiar things and types, but his awakening, if it ever comes, to the . . . freshness and originality of thought and expression, commanded by great masters of prose and poetry...
...seeks true love with Margaret, a bookish blithe spirit who captures his fancy by giving him a copy of the Goncourts' journals. After a two-year love affair, the pair decide that they are not made for each other, but after Margaret marries another man and has a child, they decide that they are. The steps Eliot takes to break up Margaret's marriage and marry her himself might have struck old Galsworthy as slightly caddish...
...child and the one-child family pattern so popular among college graduates a generation ago is being replaced by the three-or-more child family," the survey showed. This followed a national trend...