Word: parenting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When parents want to go shopping and no baby sitter can be found, a happy jaunt to the store can turn into a disaster. The child starts to cry, and Mom and Dad begin to shout. Joseph Adelman believes he has a solution. A former executive with United Artists and Paramount, Adelman recently opened Kidpix Theaters, a cinema that offers continuous 95-minute programs of cartoons and children's films between 11:30 a.m. and 9 p.m. in the Galleria at South Bay in Redondo Beach, Calif. Shopping-center-bound parents drop off their youngsters (ages five...
...chose to, the Queen, now 59, could abdicate at any time in favor of her 37-year-old son. But the only time in English history that any such parent-child transfer occurred was under duress: in 1327 rebellious nobles compelled the effete Edward II to hand on his crown to his young son, who became Edward III. The four other English abdications were also under pressure. Richard II and Henry VI were forced out by political rivals during the Wars of the Roses; James II was expelled in 1688 because he had converted to Roman Catholicism; and Edward VIII...
...bold move, therefore, of Adams House to select Measure for Measure as their offering for this semester. It is certainly a very entertaining piece, with enough sex and violence to fill a dozen TV movies and offend another dozen parent groups. But, for all that, it is still Shakespeare...
Levinson said the show went on as planned yesterday despite the wind and rain because it was part of a celebration commemorating the birthday of Dorothy Day, the deceased founder of the singers' parent organization, the Catholic Worker. Day, a journalist, communist, and convert to Catholicism, established the organization 50 years ago in New York City, where a leftwing newspaper still bears its name...
...advocate of the "average, middle-class," Alfred B. Fantini has been a moderate, bridging the conservative, neighborhood-oriented Independents and the more liberal CCA coalition. On parent evaluations of school staff, for example, the one issue that has most clearly separated the CCA and Independents, Fantini sees a great benefit in parental participation, particularly in the alternative programs. But he continues, "I think in some cases the evaluations have gotten out of hand...