Word: infantalizing
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After winning a lengthy battle last year to become an academic concentration, Women's Studies appeared finally to have found a permanent place at Harvard. But this summer another obstacle popped up in the way of the infant concentration...
...greater impact on modern British housewares and furniture than Conran, but he seems intent on conquering America as well. He runs 15 Conran's outlets in the eastern U.S. and plans to expand to the West Coast. He operates more than 200 Mothercare stores, selling maternity and infant clothing. His three decorating books, The House Book, The Kitchen Book and The Bed & Bath Book, have sold more than 250,000 copies in the U.S. Conran travels to America at least four times a year, conferring with advisers and checking up on his stores. Says he: "America is our biggest opportunity...
Then Oral began to hedge. During a TV appearance with a physician from his university's medical school, Roberts explained that a baby he had raised "years ago" appeared to have died during a service. "Only a doctor could say" whether the infant was "clinically dead," he said, but "the mother thought it was dead, I thought it was dead, the crowd thought it was dead...
...beginning there was rock and roll. The infant art form embraced gospel and country, blues and ballads. Blacks cohabited with whites on the Top 40; boys packing sexual threat in their jeans shared the bill with girls tenderized in lacquer and lace. The mood could be tender too. On the radio, a slow tune just naturally followed an up-tempo number; it was the heartbeat of teen America. The 19-year-old Aretha Franklin could take a Broadway spiritual like Meredith Willson's Are You Sure and transform it into a righteous steeple raiser. Baby, that was rock and roll...
...debate is about to be refueled. This fall Belsky will publish another article, contending that many current research findings do not support his critics' optimism about even high-quality, stable infant day care. A new study conducted by Psychiatrist Peter Barglow of Chicago's Michael Reese Hospital and colleagues supports this view. It concludes that even upper-middle-class one-year-olds, enjoying ostensibly the best substitute care -- at home with a nanny or baby sitter -- tend to be less securely attached to their mothers. "Is the mother by far the best caretaker for the child in the first year...