Word: fretted
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This unhappy process, says Eble, begins with parents who fail to realize that "learning begins in delight and flourishes in wonder," and who fret so much over their children's education that they discourage a sense of curiosity about knowledge. Everyone jokes about pupils who fall in love with their teachers; but, to Eble, "it is no joke-it is the way of learning. That is the advantage of live teachers and live books. They can be fallen in love with, possessed...
...wrong places. When Hamlet confronts Ophelia "mad," there is a chance for some very sinister stuff: a glaze-eyed Aryan appears, bearing down on her. But up jumps a nervous little Dragnet theme to turn it ludicrous. When Hamlet asks Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, "Am I easier to fret than a pipe?" the scene is played in heavy silence that exaggerates its portent. But presumbaly that's the director's doing, as, unfortunately, is a lot else...
...Crud, Fret & Jeers...
...missing a reporter's nightmare-a country where reliable sources of any sort are all but nonexistent, where vital communications and transportation are spotty at their best. One Saigon bureau chief recently broke in new hands by telling them that all he had to offer was "crud, fret and jeers. The crud, he said, is indigenous and ubiquitous; the fret results from the job's unavoidable frustrations; the jeers would come from visiting columnists, Congressmen and assorted other critics, all convinced that they know more than the man on the scene. Says CBS's Dan Rather...
...Health, Education and Welfare reports a consistent drop in the U.S. birth rate since 1958 (TIME, May 6); last year it sagged 7%, and the total of 3,800,000 was the smallest in 15 years. Understandably, Mrs. Gerber and her husband's industry are beginning to fret. The newest item on the fret list of the baby-food business is the growing popularity of "the pill." The baby-food people still just seem to hope that it will somehow go away. "Birth control," says a Gerber executive primly, "is a necessity in some countries...