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Emotional deprivation early in life has a similar effect. For six years University of Washington psychologist Geraldine Dawson and her colleagues have monitored the brain-wave patterns of children born to mothers who were diagnosed as suffering from depression. As infants, these children showed markedly reduced activity in the left frontal lobe, an area of the brain that serves as a center for joy and other lighthearted emotions. Even more telling, the patterns of brain activity displayed by these children closely tracked the ups and downs of their mother's depression. At the age of three, children whose mothers were...
Government policy in any number of areas--health care, taxes, the economy, crime--touches children. But the initiative that will have the most particular and powerful effect on them is welfare reform. If, as some predict, the incomes of poor mothers are drastically reduced as a result of the new system, children will be harmed. But let's assume that the reforms work as intended and mothers get jobs that pay them more than paupers' wages. What effect may the changes have on childhood development...
...have seen over and over and over that even if you can produce good results with small programs, when you expand to a national level, the effect often disappears," says Ronald Haskins, a top Republican staff member of the House Ways and Means Committee. "That is the case with Head Start. We still do not have evidence that Head Start produces any long-term effects...
These shows make it clear that the once accepted view of Tiepolo was wrong. It said, in effect, that he was a slightly suspect virtuoso--the last of what had been, a fizzing Catherine wheel of talent at the end of the long display of Venetian genius that ran from the Bellinis to Titian, Tintoretto and Veronese. Disapproval of Tiepolo was high-toned; his work did not accord with the moralizing grandeur of a later Neoclassicism, still less with the assumptions of Realism. It was rococo, compliant, theatrical and somehow frivolous. It celebrated a city in deep decline and praised...
...tradition and adding to it. His borrowings from the past were inspired, not passive or academic. His great model was Veronese--indeed, his contemporaries called him "Veronese reborn"--and other artists influenced him too. He was acutely style-conscious, and as alert as a magpie. But the effect of his work ran on into the future...