Word: parented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bacteria Count. If convicted, Good Humor faces fines of $1.8 million. Donald Kennedy, now on leave as production director, faces a six-month jail sentence; James Jerram, former manager of quality control, could be jailed for four years. Jerram is on leave from Good Humor's parent, Thomas J. Lipton Inc., which is itself a unit of the Dutch-based multinational Unilever. Good Humor General Counsel David St. Clair says the company is "not guilty...
...earlier volume, Exiles, Arlen was a prep school Telemachus, searching for the truth about his late parent, author of The Green Hat and other best-selling novels of the '20s, who had succumbed to writer's block, deprecation and obscurity. In that poignant volume the son could only compile small sorrows and acts of redemption. However acute, Exiles was the work of a miniaturist. In Passage to Ararat, Arlen set himself a near-Homeric task: the recovery of a forgotten people. To accomplish that mission he has performed a series of brilliancies: his research is irreproachable...
...past several years. It thus may create an important pattern for future negotiations between city and unions, both in New York and elsewhere. Observed a member of Big Mac: "The union leaders have had no experience in bargaining anything away. It's an unnatural process, like a parent talking about selling a child...
...Decter never deals with the possibility that her description of the liberal parent (with whom she has so clearly allied herself) may be inaccurate. She claims that the youth of the 60s are unable to define themselves except in terms of their parents, and because of this assumption must conclude that their attitudes grew out of a liberal childhood. Yet she never quite realizes that every generation is a product of the generation before it, and that her liberal parents--whom she characterizes as "America's professional, or enlightened, middle class"--are still influenced by the attitudes of their parents...
Because she cannot be really critical about either traditional American society or the role played by the liberal parent, Decter's argument is self-contradictory. What is worse, however, is that she offers no alternatives. She creates a picture of what happens when liberal parents try to raise children, and the only other alternative she leaves is a conservative upbringing, with all the repression that implies. The conservative method seems to produce children who reject their parents' values by becoming liberal parents, while the liberal method seems to keep children wrapped permanently in swaddling bands. There doesn't seem...