Word: parented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While Mom works, Kinder-Care plays part-time parent...
...family. She visits dozens of them around the country: a matriarchal black clan in Indiana, a tribe of patriarchal Greeks in Massachusetts, a conglomerate of patricians in Manhattan. There are Jewish families dispersed in the South and Midwest, farm families plowed over by vast interstate highway systems, single-parent families, and homes where both parents are homosexual. There are also extranuclear families-communes, and open households- whose relationships and attitudes often seem like exotic and short-lived particles created in cyclotrons. A band in Texas "went up in a blaze of sexual hyperactivity and recrimination after about a year...
Ever since U.N. sanctions were imposed on Rhodesia in 1965, Lonrho's Rhodesian subsidiaries have operated -theoretically, at least-at arm's length from the parent firm. Rowland, who for years has known virtually all of the country's political leaders, black and white, seems to be obsessed with finding a workable solution to the political dilemma. Says one of his London business colleagues: "There is a messianic streak in Tiny's makeup that he, and he alone, can solve the Rhodesian problem...
...write novels." He and his wife Linda moved to rural Marshfield, Mass., to operate the local Y.W.C.A. so that he could write. Two unpublished novels and five years later, O'Callahan found that his prime talent was for telling stories aloud. He found it in a manner any parent might envy: entertaining his own children, Teddy and Laura...
...still not sure where its body begins and ends and does not fully realize that the mother is a separate individual. Outbursts of rage, sometimes violent ones centering on feeding, rise from this stress, Kaplan says; they result from "a vague wish to make life whole again." A parent who responds with rage just reinforces the fear of fragmentation. What the child needs, says Kaplan, is a "calming yes-saying voice," conveying assurance that its aggressive urges are not dangerous...