Word: comers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This kind of cool, specific advice runs throughout Black Child Care (Simon & Schuster; $9.95). Its authors are Dr. Alvin Poussaint, 41, associate dean of students at Harvard Medical School, and Dr. James Comer, 40, professor at Yale University Child Study Center. Their book, written in question-and-answer format, is a stage-by-stage study of the black child's development from infancy through adolescence...
Racism, too, should be confronted early on. Stating bluntly that "racism is everywhere," Poussaint and Comer urge parents not to spend all their energy fighting it, but not to accept it either. "If a child is always asked by other children to play the horse but never the rider, the cook but never the mother being served, the porter but never the traveler, you may want to withdraw your child from the play," they suggest. They also argue that parents have every right to tell their children to refuse rituals like pledging allegiance to the flag if the parents consider...
Garvin's corporate background is in transport, refining and marketing as well as chemicals-areas of the business that are increasingly important to Exxon now that governments in the Middle East and Latin America are squeezing the profits out of petroleum production. Garvin was marked as a comer at Exxon in the early 1960s. In 1965 he took over the company's chemical operations and helped turn them into the fastest-growing part of Exxon's business...
...take a judge hostage when their legal situation becomes hopeless. A very exciting and sympathetic portrait that gets better and better every time you see it. It's playing with another wonderful film about French criminals, Borsalino. Jean Paul Belmondo gives a marvelous performance as an up-and-comer in the Marseilles rackets...
...Jeff Kramer's winning clocking of 4:03.5. But the freshman standout, plagued by insufficient time to work out, did manage to log a 3:08 3/4-mile time while running the mile. "He was really strong in the cross-country season, and he is going to be a comer," Hunt said...