Word: infantalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These space-age children are taking an experimental science curriculum drawn up by University of California Physicist Robert Karplus, 32, whose specialty is not elementary school teaching but elementary particles. (Sample Karplus research paper: "Spectral Representations in Perturbation Theory-The Vertex Function.") A Vienna-born infant prodigy who could multiply four-digit numbers in his head before he went to first grade, Harvard-trained (Ph.D., 1948) Karplus got to worrying about schools after he became a father (three girls, two boys, a sixth child on the way). Listening to teachers talk about the problems of teaching science, he decided that...
...made Uncle Edwin's conjugal privileges meaningless, the marriage is a big surprise but, hereditarily speaking, no calamity. In a moment of passion (passion is always momentary in Compton-Burnett), Simon makes it a calamity by adulterously siring a son with Rhoda. Uncle Edwin names the infant Hamish, swears Simon to secrecy, and raises the child to inherit the legacy of the ironically bypassed real father...
...Infant mortality has declined from 33.8 to 26.3 per 1,000 live births...
...Tubman Stadium, at which nearly 1,000 people, including President Tubman's daughter, made "decisions for Christ." Billy won his hearers' hearts when he reminded them, as he will remind all Africa, that Christ was neither white nor black, and that it was in Africa that the infant Jesus found refuge from Herod. And he gave Liberia a new catch phrase with his description of "Mr. Two-Dollars walking down the street" to illustrate how small is the value of a man when measured in terms of the raw materials that make up his body...
...advertised, Slawomir Mrozek's "Drama from Gendarme Circles" (translated by Edmund Ordon and adapted by Mary Manning) is a satire on totalitarianism and an attack on imposed conformity. It begins when the last political prisoner in an unnamed nation signs his confession and reconciles himself to "the Infant and his uncle the Regent," which means that everybody in "the best state in the world" has attained a state of "perfect loyalty," with "not a hint of incipient disloyalty," as various characters tell one another with maddening frequency. By the time someone began screaming that "the people have become wildly, cruelly...