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Prudish parents have long been a favorite target of the psychiatrists. Puritanical homes are often blamed for giving children a neurotic attitude toward sex. But one psychiatrist thinks that modern parents can carry their modernism too far. Dr. Flanders Dunbar, 46, mother of a seven-year-old daughter and author of the 1947 bestseller Mind and Body (TIME, Oct. 6, 1947), sounds the warning in her new book, out this week, Your Child's Mind and Body (Random House...
...gradual outgrowing of the hush-hush period," writes Psychiatrist Dunbar, "many of the so-called 'enlightened' parents have thought it would help to let their children see them in the nude, beginning at a very early age. Experiments and experience have indicated that this is not a good idea . . . Let your children see you undressed, but not until they have seen their own contemporaries undressed . . . The reaction to excessive modesty and repression led to excessive exhibitionism and produced neurotic children. There is a middle way." Other Dunbar suggestions...
Most enterprising campaign manager was Dunbar Rapier, a Negro third-year premedical student, whose candidate was Beryl Dickinson-Dash, 21-year-old daughter of a Montreal railway porter. Rapier posed Beryl before the snow sculpture decorating the campus for carnival week, then tacked the photographs all over the campus. He persuaded Montreal radio shows to get in a word for his candidate...
Because most of Dunbar's students come from low-income homes and many have to leave before graduation, Campbell concentrates on teaching every boy & girl some employable skill in the first half year. In the auto-shop course, a boy learns to grease a car; in the dressmaking course, a girl learns to cut dress parts. Students who stay become skilled craftsmen: some of Dunbar's sheet-metal graduates make $125 a week...
...year when an aircraft student won the state oratory contest. Knowing that factory doors don't open so wide to Negroes, Campbell drills his students on writing letters of application and taking job tests, makes them conscious of neatness, work habits and "personality." Best measure of his success: Dunbar now takes only the top 15% of its applicants...