Word: fatherly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spot a potentially delinquent boy years before he lands in court the Gluecks mainly pinpoint what they call the "five highly decisive" factors in family life: father's discipline, mother's supervision, father's affection toward his son, mother's affection, cohesiveness of the family. In turn, each factor is measured by degrees...
...Gluecks' "almost perfect" candidate for delinquency: "Johnny is always harshly disciplined by his father. The mother generally leaves him to his own devices, letting him run around the streets and usually not knowing what he does or where he goes. The father dislikes the boy. The mother is indifferent to her son, expressing little warmth of feeling, or she is downright hostile to him. The family is unintegrated because, for example, the mother spends most of the day away from home, giving little if any thought to the doings of the children, and the father, a heavy drinker, spends...
...workers must be extraordinary. They can be successful, the Gluecks hope, if even two of the five highly decisive factors are altered, so that Johnny's delinquency chances are reduced to six out of ten. "For instance, if the efforts of the social worker were to change the father's typical discipline of the boy from 'overstrict' or 'erratic' to 'firm but kindly,' and the mother's supervision from 'unsuitable' to 'suitable,' the resultant delinquency probability would be cut." Johnny might then...
...plot turns to Thomas' youth at Cripple Creek, Colo., an offstage voice booms: "Lowell read every book in father's library." (Thomas recognizes his sister, who comes forward to kiss him.) "Father insisted you learn every rock and mineral up there in the mining camp...
...Wyeth crammed his children's-book illustrations with sunset skies, flashing weapons, taut sails, flowing tresses, war bonnets, redcoats and pieces of eight. Andrew Wyeth, his even more famous son, has gradually emptied his own pictures of all but the barest, palest and sharpest images. As against his father's brocades, Andrew Wyeth's art has the austerity of smoky quartz crystals; yet it is all the richer for that, and the more valued. Last week the Philadelphia Museum of Art bought a typically bare new Wyeth for $35,000. Though not all museums disclose purchase prices...