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...parent about whether the other is dating or spending a lot of money, a child had best answer: "Please stop trying to turn me into a tattletale." A son asked to spend all night in his mother's bed should "tell her that she should find a grownup man instead," and a daughter treated by her mother as an adult confidante "should suggest that her mother find friends...
...Orders did not exactly flood in. Taking second thought, Cardin began working closely with his manufacturers, finally succeeded in cutting his prices almost in half. By way of celebration, he opened a special children's boutique this month, directly across Paris' elegant Faubourg St. Honore from his grownup salon. There, potential clients can rattle around in toy racing cars or tumble with giant Teddy bears, while mothers hit the racks with new enthusiasm. Now a jersey dress is a mere $36, a tweed suit about $40. Best news of all: children who do not live in Paris...
...festival was widely advertised, but the unexpectedly large crowd it attracted suggests that the potential significance of the event was spread by a kind of underground network. "If you were part of this culture," said one pilgrim back from Bethel, "you had to be there." In spite of the grownup suspicions and fears about the event. Bethel produced a feeling of friendship, camaraderie and ?an overused phrase?a sense of love among those present. This yearning for togetherness was demonstrated in countless major and minor ways: the agape-like sharing of food and shelter by total strangers: the lack...
...Credulity," Charles Lamb observed, "is the man's weakness, but the child's strength." The principal ingredient of The Fool Killer is false belief-in the evanescent ghosts of folklore that are part of a boy's education and a grownup's destruction...
...doesn't need: partisanship. As an angry father figure stuck with an angry-son explanation of history, he becomes in the end a victim of those excesses he describes. What makes Feuer's book ap pealing, especially to that group which may be loosely referred to as "grownup," is its easy (too easy) explanation of current woes and rages that many Americans find painful and inexplicable. What makes it potentially baneful is that, by putting all the vociferous, outrageous young in one conveniently labeled specimen bottle, Feuer encourages his read ers in the smug, seductive notion that...