Word: infantalizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lines are cut into his neck, and tubes have been jammed up his nose and down his throat. Although $2,000 a day is being spent to keep this child alive, he will be permanently handicapped if he ever leaves the hospital. But it is unlikely that this infant will go home. "This baby is the dilemma," says Dr. Maureen Edwards, director of newborn services at the hospital. "You've started treatment, and there's no place to stop, and you're not going to save the baby...
...what mind and soul can do given an opportunity," he said. "Let us be worthy of our 'Rubys.' Let us see the day when 100,000 of our children won't be homeless, when we do better than the more than dozen nations who do better than us in infant mortality rates...
...born in 1939 in Havana, where his father briefly distributed foreign films and other imported products. His father, whose parents were Lebanese, grew up in Boston. His mother hailed from El Salvador, though her parents were Lebanese and Greek. When Sununu was an infant, his family migrated to the tony neighborhood of Forest Hills, N.Y. Their home was filled with letters from relatives in half a dozen countries as well as books and conversations in several languages. Thanks to his mother, childhood trips to Europe and college studies, Sununu is fluent in Spanish, speaks decent French and reads German...
...none of this is enough to suggest that we should simply burn our books and flood the classroom with TV monitors. Just because an infant cannot speak, we do not talk to him entirely in "goos" and "aahs"; rather, we coax him, gradually, into speech, and then into higher and more complex speech. That, in fact, is the definition of education: to draw out, to teach children not what they know but what they do not know; to rescue them, as Cicero had it, from the tyranny of the present. The problem with visuals is not just that they bombard...
That wasn't all they noticed. One humble service rendered by the traditional skirt is to camouflage the knee: no one much older than an infant has pretty knees. But an opaque legging accomplishes the cover-up nicely. And more ancient wisdom comes into play. Carolina Herrera, noted for her ladylike designs that include Caroline Kennedy's exquisite wedding dress, endorses the look for a sound reason: "The last thing to go in a woman are the legs...