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DEBORAH NOLIN Old Lyme, Conn...
...through school. The very name tapes on her clothes read "Lady Fonda," and she was referred to at home as "Lady Jayne." It was not until the Fondas moved east for Mr. Roberts that Jane shook off the adult humor. Her family had preceded the Hay wards to Greenwich, Conn., and Brooke Hayward noisily greeted her old classmate: "Lady Jayne!" "My name is Jane," came the icy reply. "J-A-N-E." Peter chose his own way of self-expression. "I wrote I HATE THE EAST on the walls of the houses we moved into, and then my father would...
Boghosian's own roots were far removed from Grecian lore. The son of an Armenian cobbler, he grew up in New Britain, Conn. After a stint in the Navy, he attended college under the G.I. Bill, finishing up with a year under the "hard but kind" tutelage of Bauhaus Master Josef Albers at Yale. Now 43, he teaches sculpture himself at Dartmouth. He first became interested in Orpheus during college days, and printed a small portfolio of woodcuts, accompanied by his own poetry. Years later, while he was picking up driftwood on a Provincetown beach, the story of Orpheus...
...approval of other little girls their age? They get it. And what happens to little boys who crave popularity with other little boys? They are scorned. This somewhat unsettling conclusion has been drawn from an experiment staged at two suburban Boston grade schools by Psychologist Lane K. Conn of Boston's Northeastern University. With two research assistants. who suggested the experiment, Conn rated 192 fifth-and sixth-graders on a scale that measured their need for approval. Then his subjects were asked, among other things, to pick the three classmates they would choose for class president, which three they...
Among his girl subjects, Conn found a high correlation between wanting to be liked and being liked, but almost none among the boys. Why? Until Conn evaluates his findings, he can only guess. In this society, he says, dependency is a female role. Hence, little girls openly seeking approval can readily be accepted; they are not violating the rules. The male role, on the other hand, sets a premium on independence, even in grade school. Thus when Conn's male subjects too nakedly showed their need to be liked, they were doomed to rejection...