Word: parented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...while railing at the pasteboard void, Rosen also admits to having learned to play its games with a real sense of bravura. Gassed on the streets of Chicago during the '68 demonstrations, Rosen's mind flashes from childhood memories of cajoling his parent's friends with smiles and jokes and pleasant words to playing the martyr scenes for the sake of the familiar suburban mother-type behind the oversized wheel of the Camaro before which he stumbles in temporary confusion. "I am so accustomed to my mastery of mothers that this sudden and irritating turn of events unnerves...
...POLITICS of the action completely aside, the image is a most appealing one. There's a certain evil tinge to the performance that rings true. For you do learn to be a conman in the suburbs. And while every parent probably envisions their children of the fifties as little Beaver Cleavers. the much more calculating behavior of, say, an Eddie Haskell is probably a lot closer to the mark. To hell with all that Woodstock crap. As Rosen quotes Wilde, "Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know...
...book has a humane, almost joyful candor that might well assist a perplexed parent. But as for critics of sex education, it is a toss-up which will disturb them more, the permissive attitudes expressed in the text or some of Will McBride's black-and-white photos. Among the picture subjects are couples during intercourse, erect penises and ejaculation; there are also less explicit, sometimes charming evocations of conjugal and family love...
...voluntarily. But last month the court backed away from the implications of that decision. By a vote of 5 to 4, it ruled that a key section of the 1952 McCarran-Walter Act is constitutional. That section terminates the U.S. citizenship of a foreign-born child of an American parent unless the child lives in the U.S. for five consecutive years between the ages...
...Harvard Yard Center was organized by parents in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. It is the first parent-initiated day-care center in the University...