Word: overstuffs
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...That's a lot of plot, and there's more besides. This isn't the most elegant of the Potter volumes: the sheer number of Macguffins in play gives the story a lumpy shape, and Rowling's prodigious narrative imagination constantly tempts her to overstuff the story. That kind of thing can be frustrating on a first reading, when you're hellbent on getting to the denouement, but it's exactly the kind of thing you appreciate on later re-readings, when you can stop and let chance details catch the light, and groove on the richness and sheer high...
...with better education sooner. Comments Roberta Babb, director of Creme de la Creme: "For a long time, people didn't realize all the things that a little mind is capable of. We give them a big head start for school." But others are dismayed by a parental mania to overstuff little minds that are not ready. At the recent convention in Atlanta of the National Association of Independent Schools, hothousing was a major topic among the 4,000 in attendance. Argued one of the panelists, Cleveland-based Educational Psychologist Jane Healy: "We're viewing children as a perfectible product into...
...Director J. L. Blumenthal of the bureau of child hygiene, New York City: "The really fat baby has a mass of material that is of no use to him at all in fighting off ills and diseases of babyhood. . . . The grownups, in the interest of health, exercise. . . . Why, then, overstuff the baby so the mother can boast about...
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