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...week by the Carnegie Council on Children. Headed by Kenneth Keniston, the M.I.T. psychologist known for his studies of dissenting youth in the '60s, the eleven-member council has spent the past five years probing "what American society is doing to and for children." For starters, the researchers debunk the "myth of the self-sufficient family" and the still widely held belief that parents alone are responsible for what becomes of their children...
Braudel's work did not emerge all at once, or by itself. Its origin dates back to 1929, when Historians Lucien Febvre and Marc Bloch founded a scholarly review in Paris called the Annales (Annals). Its tone was combative, its fervor evangelical. Its purpose: to debunk the chronicling of politics and biographies of great men that had obsessed historians since the 19th century. Let there be new approaches, Febvre exhorted, ranging from aerial photography to the study of climates...
...sexual taboos. But my point was that even as satire some of these films, although harmless, do get pretty offensive [in the same way I think spoofs in the National Lampoon, and films like Network go too far]. And it was precisely because I assumed that the need to debunk sexist attitudes, although unfortunately not "universally understood," is at least recognized by many filmgoers in Cambridge, that I thought I should poke some fun of my own at these shorts' sometimes unsympathetic and crude way of bringing that message across...
Although women shouldn't feel called on to repudiate old-fashioned roles and values in the search for a new identity, these writers suggest that something different and more rewarding is possible, something more willfull and willed. And they affirm that it is necessary to debunk old mores on the level of one-to-one relationships between men and women before you can proceed to the larger issues and ambitions...
...movie Play It Again, Sam. Allen was one of them. "If I only knew where my damn analyst was," he wailed. "Where do they go every August?" The answer, of course, is that they go on vacation. Some psychiatrists say they choose August because Freud did, though others debunk that notion as too Freudian. "An August vacation," explains Dr. William Frosch, a Manhattan psychiatrist, "is built into your training from the start. Your analyst took August and so you start doing so yourself...