Word: parent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There can be little doubt that the Oedipal stirrings of many American patriots contributed to their willingness to revolt. The four men Shaw portrays were hardly unique in their view of the king as a father. Images of England as an unjust parent appear repeatedly in the pamphlet literature of the period, and influential works like John Dickinson's "Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania" rely heavily on the America-as-wronged-child motif. Such metaphors served to remind Americans, in easily acessible terms, of the harshness of the British rejection. As Dickinson wrote. "The parent company...drew to herself...
...finders visit dozens of private schools a year. Boarding schools specializing in laggard students are much in demand. Says Beverly Hills Counselor Harriett Bay: "Rarely does a parent come in with a terrific little kid seeking a terrific school. Most come in a moment of crisis...
Private schools are no longer the province of the rich. More divorces, the emergence of the middle-class one-parent household and the increase in two-income families have helped create a whole new crop of parents ready to make almost any sacrifice (boarding schools cost between $5,000 and $8,000 a year) to give their children a chance at what appears to be an inflation-proof possession, a good education. -By Kenneth M. Pierce. Reported by Joseph Pilcher/Los Angeles and Marc Levinson/Atlanta, with other U.S. bureaus
...session develops emotional focus, the American public emerges as an enemy to be distrusted, or more subtly, as a parent who has withheld love and approval so long that the veteran can think only to writhe in frustration, or lash back...
Finally, it was the eleventh-hour intercession of Thornton Bradshaw, the new head of NBC's parent company RCA, that seems to have convinced Brokaw. After a sleepless weekend at a retreat on Long Island-and a sharp reminder from his 13-year-old daughter at summer camp to "let me know what you decide; I don't want to have to read it in the newspapers"-Brokaw made his choice. Said he: "I have been here for 15 years. I just couldn't find enough reasons to walk out the door...