Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conflict in Miss Julie is as much be tween classes as sexes. At a Midsummer Eve revel, arrogant, dissatisfied Miss Julie, the neurotic child of parents who hated each other, becomes infatuated with her father's valet and tempts him into an affair. Respectful enough beforehand, he turns sneeringly overbearing. But, however revolted, Miss Julie is also desperate. She steals her father's money to try to run away with her lover, in the end seizes her lover's razor to do away with herself...
...should not be left to the discretion of a policeman whether to make an arrest or let the child go. Such power in the hands of a policeman may lead to serious abuses. Suppose a boy steals. His parents manage to make restitution. Or the frantic mother goes to any length to persuade the officer to overlook the offense. Or the case is dealt with by voluntary agencies. That couldn't happen in England. There, if a boy is caught, he must come before the court. That is bet ter, both for society and for the boy. Juvenile delinquency...
...discipline we both have, that is to be found in some of the so-called-heaven only knows why-progressive schools. What a most dangerous thing we are doing for our children, to let them go into a class that that morning calls for arithmetic-and that morning, the child doesn't feel like arithmetic. Who does for heaven's sake? So instead of doing the job anyway, he goes and makes puppets or something. We are not teaching, must because I ought,'but the most dangerous doctrine of 'I see, I want, I take...
Born. To King Hussein of Jordan, 20, and Cambridge-educated Queen Sherifa Dina Abdul Hamid el-Aoun, 26, onetime lecturer in English literature at Cairo University: their first child, a daughter; in Amman. Weight...
...mystery on which Dr. Dick Read stumbled has him baffled. In a tribe whose women are famed for their beauty, the chiefs have forbidden the women to bear more than one child each. To obey, they take an herb preparation by mouth every six or eight months. What the magic contraceptive component is, no white man knows...