Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Indian child of three lay in a dusty courtyard under the brassy Andean sky, bony and emaciated, but big in the belly...
There is a widespread academic tendency to pass off Thomas Wolfe as an undisciplined child, as "wild little Tommy." When Wolfe is discussed, inevitably the conversation turns on the fact that he could manage to scrawl only three giant, illegible words on a page of manuscript, or to the fact that he sent off four orange-crates of novel to his publisher. In Thomas Wolfe: The Weather of his Youth, Louis D. Rubin, Jr., has attempted to approach the author and his works intelligently, and to treat them as something besides a gigantic, but insignificant, oddity...
...result is a plan that has the children taped and measured in the latest sociopsychological terms, from "group hostility" to "rejection." It anticipates virtually any question that a child can ask about religion, tries to give the answers with charts, diagrams and sample dialogues. The series calls for a cadre of Sunday-school teachers who are a far cry from the usual warmhearted spinsters and parish wheel horses. The new teachers should be well trained in Christian doctrine and church history, teach full 50-minute periods, be accompanied by a "classroom observer" who is to be "an additional...
...plant like the plant the seed comes from.' 'Yes, but why?' asked Mike. 'That's the way the world is, Mike. It is God's world and God's world is dependable,' said his mother." (On the other hand, when a child says, "I don't like God," the recommended answer is not "Don't say that; that's irreverent," for this would make the child feel rejected. The answer should be: "I know how you feel...
...every English social cliche available. The hypocrite vicar, upstart servants and Scotland Yard all are thrown in to comment on the pitifully high state of English morals. Carne wraps stolid England up in a ball with one final commentary--the man in a hanging-mob who holds his child's hand with the greatest of social responsibility...