Word: parenthood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Word for It. The birth is a unique attempt at planned parenthood. Libya, a country of a few backward cities and oasis-speckled sand wilderness about three times the size of Texas, is the first nation brought into being solely by the United Nations. But it is a typical newborn of the sickly Arab world-born into poverty, cursed with ignorance, endowed with only a fighting chance to grow to maturity. The 1,050,000 Arabs of Libya have a word for independence-istiqlal-but little of the heritage to make it work...
...with a rush, many of us before we hit 20 And why not? Millions were overseas, som wounded and killers of fellow men before we ever had to shave . . . Upon returning horn with a chance of a free education, we combined that, many of us, with marriage an parenthood; and still in our very early 20s. Yes, we're a generation who can't remember when a bitter war wasn't raging somewhere Why, the first newspaper I recall seeing was the Herald Tribune's rotogravure section with pictures of the Sino-Japanese war in Manchuria...
...brilliance, drive and talent . . . After all, it's easier to take the plodding, army-like promotions and security of big companies with two outings a year . . . live in a little house in the suburbs with a wife in Peck & Peck tweeds who knows all about zinnias and planned parenthood, and have two dirty-faced moppets playing on the lawn, than it is to start a new magazine when starving in an attic in the Village or be bursting with potential in the mailroom at $27.50 a week...
...Radio and gambling, cocktails and promiscuous fornication, soporifics and aphrodisiacs, television and motor trips and sports, preferably sports that threaten loss of limb, are all the fillers-in of deficient forms of life: witnesses to the disruption of the family, the renunciation of parenthood, the retreat from citizenship, the failure of education to make whole persons...
When Monsignor Edward Westenberger spotted an article called "Margaret Sanger: Mother of Planned Parenthood" in the July Reader's Digest (circ. 15 million), he saw his duty and did it. As director of parochial schools of the Catholic Diocese of Green Bay, Wis., Westenberger banned the Digest from the 125 schools under his supervision. The offending article, said he, was "unpatriotic, unChristian, and vicious propaganda...