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Life Is Work. At nursery level, Anne-marie Roeper introduces children to numbers, letters, maps, magnetism, gravity and the three states of matter. In kinder garten, the play extends to phonics, word games and Cuisenaire rods-a first-grade package. In second grade, having long since mastered multiplication, division and short essay writing, the kids read at fifth-grade level, pursue "the joy of discovery" in bright classrooms adorned with such helpful information as: "A paleontologist has to work very hard for the museum. He has to put dinosaur bones together. The hardest bones ever put together were Tyrannosaurus...
...mentality that Author Jackson has chosen this time belongs to Mary Katherine ("Merricat") Blackwood-actual age 18, mental age a precocious twelve. "I like my sister Constance, and Richard Plantagenet," she reflects, "and Amanita phalloides, the death-cup mushroom." She is a gentle child who promises herself to be kinder to her Uncle Julian. She is already kind enough to Constance and to her enigmatic cat Jonas. But for some reason she is never allowed to touch knives...
...hausfrau. There she stands in front of her beloved stove. Her mind untarnished by thoughts that do not concern the care of her family or the future of her soul, she is cheerfully dedicated to producing heartier dinners, cleaner floors, and more babies. From a life tightly bound by Kinder, Kirche and Küche, she gazes fondly up at her worldly husband...
...America, the high standard of living helps women leave the Kinder and the Kuche; "Now we can serve a TV dinner occasionally and go out to work for a political candidate." But though American technology provides the necessary time and money, the U.S. is not the only leader in developing its womanly resources. The Pakistanis, Mrs. Wheeler noted, have more women in their legislature than...
...Shakespeare, how much kinder author You had been Had you but written me a role called Kean. But instead of the Bard, Drake has been given a Stone...