Word: parentes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lavish Cafeteria. Against a "nearer background," Van Dusen follows the subsequent course of education in the U.S. Originally, he points out, "the church was the parent and sponsor of education. And religion was the keystone of the educational arch." But as the nation and its knowledge expanded, so did education. Courses and colleges multiplied, and education more and more became afflicted with the curse of specialization ("so stunting to large-mindedness, so fatal to comprehension of the whole truth, that is, the real truth"). And with specialization came secularization...
Feinberg is convinced that people with one allergic parent are more likely to be victims of allergies than others, and those with two allergic parents have two strikes on them. He rejects the idea that allergies are the result of personality upsets, although other researchers have found that a man who gets mad at his boss may have an allergic reaction. Rather, Feinberg thinks, the allergic discomforts create the personality difficulty. Moreover, he says sharply, "There is no such thing as allergy to work, to one's mother-in-law, or to one's spouse...
...each parent the state's attorney put only one question: "Will you now agree to a transfusion?" Both refused. Darrell Labrenz' position, as he had explained it to Bundesen: "The sanctity of the blood is a thing we cannot tamper with. Everybody knows that blood is the life force and we do not have control of life. Only Jehovah has that. Transfusion, which is a form of drinking or eating blood, is forbidden to us who are Jehovah's Witnesses...
...only 149 inches devoted to crime or violence. Even this included stories (e.g., the Korean war, the Kefauver investigation) which Editor Green thought "might be considered by many readers as being moral, rather than immoral." In the non-crime news, he counted stories about penicillin, a union convention, a parent-teachers' radio forum, a district-school music contest, new city sidewalks...
...Anthony Eberhardt, a mother of school-age children, was spokesman for the women's group which included the Catholic Mothers' Study Clubs, the Council of Protestant Churches and the Dubuque Parent-Teachers Association. Said she: "We are not trying to influence adult reading or adult thinking. We are merely trying to remove what is objectionable to children. Of course, if this restriction is incompatible with freedom, then we agree that freedom is more important...