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Everywhere he goes, Spock is asked about "the permissiveness issue," the charge that the doctor encouraged several generations of parents to ease up on discipline and give their children more free rein. "For 22 years, nobody said the book was permissive," he says. "That all started with Norman Vincent Peale." In 1968 Spock, a leader in the anti-Viet Nam protests, was indicted for conspiracy to counsel draft resistance. (He was found guilty, but the conviction was overturned in 1969.) Peale, an author and politically conservative minister, denounced Spock from his pulpit and charged that the student uprisings...
...contrast, the doctor displays another pair of pictures which bear only the slightest resemblance to one another. Both photographs depict Tiberias, a coastal city in Northern Israel. They were taken from the exact same location but separated by 100 year's time. Only an ancient tower, present in both photos, helped Tassel find the spot where Frith rested his camera...
Before accepting an honorary doctor of laws degree from New York University last week, Argentine President Raul Alfonsin breakfasted in New York City with TIME editors and correspondents. Excerpts from the interview...
...half-inch-long devices called intracanal aids, meaning that they go inside the ear canal. The battery-operated devices are scheduled to go on the market next month at a retail cost of $900 to $1,100. Dr. John William House, the President's ear doctor, prescribed the second aid to balance Reagan's hearing by slightly increasing the volume level in his left ear. Reagan's right ear, House says, is 35% impaired, while his left ear is 5% impaired, or what he calls "borderline...
...surname is familiar; Boris made it famous with Doctor Zhivago. But his brother Alexander, an architect unknown in the West, also had a talent for the literature of loss. A Vanished Present meticulously re-creates old Moscow during the last two decades of the Russian empire...