Word: js
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some folks in his old stomping grounds don't accept that fact. Down at the JS saloon, where Dallas played a few pool games, the door swings open with a creak. In ambles the mailman, an elderly fellow fond of flannel shirts and bright red Budweiser suspenders. Dallas? Known him for years. "It's hard to think that kid ever got into trouble. They just pushed him against the wall. He'd walk away from trouble if he could." The whole mess baffles Bar Owner Phyllis Sans. "It's just a damn shame it had to happen...
Some of Brazelton's cross-cultural work has raised serious issues beyond questions of childrearing. By saying that Chinese babies are different from Americans, critics ask js Brazelton lending credence to racism? He says no, because even in newborn babies environmental influences on behavior are inseparably interwoven with the genetic. The health of the mother, the practices of giving birth, the family structure and the way the family treats its new member during its first crucial days all form part of the newborn's environment. As these factors vary from culture to culture, the infant shapes his behavior in response...
Once a week Bliss meets with his chief assistants, a quartet his secretary calls the "four Js: Joan, Joe, John and Jimmy." With their surnames attached they are known as Joan Ingpen, the scheduling wizard; Joseph Volpe, overseer of backstage activities; John Dexter, the production adviser; and James Levine. That weekly meeting enables Bliss to get the view from all four sides of the big house. "Sometimes," he observes, "an artistic decision will create a technical problem or a box office or funding problem. When you choose a new production, you also have to ask the question: Is this...