Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...That may help to explain their brutal reprisals against the men, women and children of a refugee village that they hosed down with flamethrowers last week; it may also account for an upsurge in defections under the "open arms" program (see THE WORLD...
...people now figure. During one dizzying 24-hour period last week, he offered a preview of what that campaign may be like-delivering three separate speeches, holding an impromptu press conference, alternately scolding and cajoling his critics, spinning out visions of the kind of nation he wants to help build, and cracking joke after joke...
...some of the most privileged children are so unready for adult life. One reason is the lack of self-shaping experience; part of the hippie syndrome is a quest for adventure and competence. They did not have the benefit of those cattle-boat jobs that might have helped to slake the thirst for adventure; they rarely got a chance to help their father at work...
...startling degree, American parents have handed child raising to educational institutions that can not or will not do the job. Not that parents deliberately neglect children; life has simply changed. Families have lost unifying economic functions and have shrunk to two adults with no aunts, uncles or grandparents to help guide the children. All the heat is on parents, but fathers typically work in distant offices, leaving mothers to raise sons with insufficient fatherly support. Too many mothers are preoccupied with their outside activities-everything but the children...
...Seattle, a permissive father's 14-year-old daughter who had been slipping out at night to date a paroled convict was straightened out only after a community-relations officer bluntly told her father that he had to show some stern authority. "The girl was screaming silently, 'Help me; make me stop this,' " said the officer. "What she wanted was security-a dad behind her. She wanted to go to bed with a Teddy bear, not an ex-convict...