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Everywhere he goes, Spock is asked about "the permissiveness issue," the charge that the doctor encouraged several generations of parents to ease up on discipline and give their children more free rein. "For 22 years, nobody said the book was permissive," he says. "That all started with Norman Vincent Peale...
West is rarely ranked with the foremost English novelists of this century: Lawrence, Forster, Woolf. For one thing, she turned her pen to too many tasks outside the realm of fiction; for another, she remained true to tradition in an age that gloried in breaking the molds. Rose Aubrey notes...
Not all of the channel's BBC shows were worth importing. A&E's most highly touted mini-series of the winter is Freud, a six-part bio-drama about the father of modern psychoanalysis (played by David Suchet). But the promising subject has been turned into plodding and uninspired...
DIED. Ina Claire, 95, actress of insouciant charm and wit who graced vaudeville in the pre-World War I era, silent films and later talkies, but mostly the Broadway stage, where she specialized from 1917 to 1954 in the highly varnished comedies of bad manners and good breeding (The Last...
Vivienne Haigh-Wood (Julie Covington) was a young woman of good mind and high spirits when Eliot married her. The poet may even have loved Viv. Surely he loved the England she embodied--sturdy, demanding, eccentric, eloquent, experimenting within a noble tradition--qualiti es that informed his art, if not...