Word: parentes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made the only right decision. What true parent would wish his daughter to marry a divorced father of two children, 16 years her senior...
...wolves and deer still roamed its vast, land-grant acres of Brazos County in east-central Texas. Today there are nearly 7,000 Aggies, and not a coed among them to hamper the self-conscious military discipline that has made the college a special favorite with many a Texas parent...
...were run by immensely respectable old ladies, whose strict enforcement of propriety would make today's Masters seem irresponsible rakes by comparison. Parietal rules in rooming establishments and dormitories at that time were strict and simple: no lady could enter a student's room at any hour without a parent or proctor as chaperone...
...easily return to their old school. To date, none of them have. No conflicts between colored and white children have occurred. Moreover, the principal, Mr. Everitt, reports that the majority of colored children does not browbeat the few white children. Their relationships are straight-forward and easy-going. White parents have joined the Parent-Teachers Association. And, according to Mr. Everitt, more and more white children will attend Field each year. In the case of the Field School our Southerner's claim that white children cannot learn naturally and happily in a predominantly colored school breaks down...
...over a period of 14 years, by the end of which his prose had grown firmer. The result is that author and hero steadily mature in opposite directions. Equally upsetting is the fact that Reid did not bother to fit his three parts together very neatly. Tom enjoys two parents and a granny in the first two volumes and becomes an abrupt orphan in the third. To lose one parent, as Lady Bracknell suggests in The Importance of Being Earnest, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both seems like carelessness...