Word: parente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...founding fathers of U.S. higher education were clergymen of various faiths, and church-related colleges once reigned in the land. A secular age changed all that; the rise of state universities clinched it; the fate of many church-related colleges is now dark. But the Methodist Church, parent of more Protestant colleges than any other church, is blithely looking forward to a new golden era "in the great enterprise of serving Jesus Christ as Lord of the mind...
...normal human way. But the unit itself would multiply asexually, like an amoeba. As its human population increased, its internal machine shops would turn out parts for a new unit, using ingested asteroid material. After 40 or 50 years a fresh unit of macrolife would separate from its parent and look for a place in the sunlight and an asteroid to feed...
...government intends to sock them much harder. U.S. holders of Canadian stocks will pay a new 15% withholding tax on dividends; so will the holders of federal and provincial bonds. There will also be a tax jump from 5% to 15% on dividends transferred from Canadian subsidiaries to U.S. parent corporations. Unincorporated Canadian branches of U.S. companies will pay the same...
...suggests that the work is for teenagers, and a child of 14 or 15 could read the book without loss of dignity. Graves has too much sense to condescend. But the book, which is pleasantly illustrated by Dimitris Davis, is simply enough written to be read by an intelligent parent to an intelligent eight-year-old. Graves lets his readers see the Olympians as the more sophisticated Greeks saw them-beings more than mortal, but no more than human. He explains, for instance, that the sea god Poseidon "hated to be less important than his younger brother (Zeus), and always...
...Play a Musical Game (Tom Glazer, William Keene, Sally Sweetland, Arthur Malvin; Columbia). This crew, especially the infectiously good-natured Tom Glazer, commands something no parent does-instant obedience. In this superior participation record, children are invited to put their fingers "in the air, in the air," pretend to lead orchestras, and "do a little square dance...