Word: parenting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sharp edge of grief--the death of a parent, for instance--may slice through one's day-to-day sensibilities. Personal tragedy becomes linked to universal--to war to cruelty, to the inevitability of death it self. Similarly, a supremely wonderful or insightful moment may spark a feeling of simpatico towards humankind in general, a sense that maybe, at that moment a fellow on the other side of the earth is thinking the exact same thought. D. M. Thomas understands these moments, and it is his particular gift to be able, in his writing, to reveal and explore this pulse...
...American Repertory Theatre is currently putting on three one-act plays--two of them by Beckett--amorphous enough to make Waiting for Godot seem full of plot. Only after a good deal of thought does the substance of Beckett's Footfalls and Rockaby become ap parent: Footfalls explores a mother-daughter relationship, while Rockaby portrays a woman persuading herself to die. The third play, Eugene O'Neill's Hughie, provides a more concrete setting for the very abstract emotions which characterize the evening...
...ease concern that the satellite auction might lead to dismantling of the 113-year-old U.S. Weather Service, John V. Byrne, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, its parent agency, promised that the Government would continue to distribute basic weather forecasts without charge. "The man in the street," he said, would still be told "whether he should wear a raincoat." These assurances are not likely to head off a storm in Congress, which must approve the sale. Groups like the National Farm Union are threatening opposition for fear of losing such no-cost services as frost warnings. Scientists...
...Britain's tabloid press, the royal household struck back. Within hours after the Sun's opening story hit London newsstands, palace aides representing the Queen sought, and got, a permanent injunction from Britain's High Court banning any further disclosures by Kenny, the Sun or its parent News Group Newspapers Ltd., on the ground that publication would violate the former servant's contractual pledge of secrecy. News Group halted efforts to syndicate the series in other countries, a spokesman said, to avoid being held in contempt of court, but vowed to appeal the decision...
...sexual information for only 10% of their sons and for 65% of their daughters. Fathers came in an abysmal second: 26% for their sons and only 2% for their daughters. That leaves approximately one-third of the females and two-thirds of the males without information from either parent. Since so many parents are delinquent in fulfilling their obligation, I question whether they have the right to be informed about the use of contraceptives by their children...