Word: lot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plan to stand Canada on its head. "The first months, perhaps even the first Parliament," he told Time Correspondents Marsh Clark and Courtney Tower last week, "will be devoted to bringing everything up to date, getting the laws updated, the mechanisms in place. There will probably be a lot of criticism in the early months and early years that I am not doing enough. But I'd rather have that than try to start out fast and peter...
...town, and a welcome day off from work. Now, with the five-day week and the superhighway, the happiest holidays are those that happen to fall on a Monday or Friday, thus providing a three-day weekend. As any ski enthusiast or beach fancier can testify, there is a lot of difference between the two-day regular and the three-day special...
...centered weekends, almost no extracurricular activities. Days and nights are occupied with grinding, hard, solitary work. Left largely on their own, given little direction by haughty teachers who are forever talking down to them, French students have become -in the classroom, at least-a sullen, silent and smoldering lot...
...Bedrooms burst with toys and stuffed animals. A soda fountain and an unlocked cupboard brimming with cookies and candy await any child with a nagging thirst and a sweet tooth. Outside in the grassy courtyard, a concrete nude "supermother"-twice life-size-sprawls on the grass. "She takes a lot of abuse," says Bettelheim. "The children stomp on her, curl up in her arms, paint her breasts, endlessly scrub and sometimes kick her. They soon learn that the kicking hurts them more than the statue...
Splitting hairs a bit, Bettelheim refutes those who charge that he is too permissive. "I ask these children to act rationally, to have self-respect, to take cognizance of reality. That is not permissive. That is asking an awful lot...