Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unique and insidious form of educational brainwashing. Throw out the textbooks and the values of our civilization and you pave the way for any demagogue to lead children to think as he sees fit. There's one absolute Professor Brameld can't reject-my determination that my child has a right to grow up unreconstructed. Parents of the world, unite...
...with it: "Oh, the very interior life of a Mother Superior/Is not so interior/It's veiled hysterier./The roofs need repairing/The budgets need paring/This pace is driving me wild./If I get to heaven it's because I made twenty-seven/First Fridays when I was a child...
...father of a child conceived by artificial insemination? The man whose semen was used, decided a tribunal of Italian magistrates last week. But in arguing the case, the presiding judge made the point that artificial insemination was a fact of modern life and should be treated as such, rather than as the sin the Roman Catholic Church says it is. "The magistrate cannot accept the church's totally negative views on artificial insemination," he said. "That is the religious viewpoint, but a lay magistrate must see other viewpoints beside the religious...
...play seems somewhat self-conscious about its own hidden meanings and symbols. In the last act, by having Miss Madrigal tell the grandmother: "You have not a green thumb with a plant or a child," the playwright tries rather painfully to impart some undue significance to all the gardening prattle that has gone before. I could accept the fact that raising a garden on chalk soil symbolized overcoming the obstacles of life, but any more detailed meaning seemed just too heavy for the dramatic structure to bear...
...Children's Hour. In Springfield, Ohio, Mrs. Rosa Apone put a classified ad in the local paper-"Child Care, hour, day, week. Inexperienced, unreliable, unreasonable rates, no references"-next day got 50 phone calls from interested parents...