Word: parently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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About one-fourth of South Caroli na's 800 Methodist churches are withholding contributions to an Interdenominational Cooperation Fund because a fraction of the money goes to the National Council. Recently the Knoxville presbytery formally resolved that the parent Presbyterian Church in the U.S. (the Southern Presbyterians) should withdraw from membership in the council, a motion that may well be seconded by a dozen more presbyteries at this year's General Assembly. Episcopalians in Southern California who belong to the archconservative Society of St. Athanasius have made a number of motions at church financecommittee meetings to withhold funds...
Buddhists are something like a child who has grown too fast and had too much thrust on him," says Khanh. "But the good parent does not kill the child. Instead, he gives him the medicine he needs, and when he gets well, he gives him the discipline he needs...
Zuckert will not review the cases for another two or three months. Until then, cadets returning home are still considered members of the Air Force; all have been given strict orders not to discuss the scandal, which left parents and friends in doubt over whether they were cheaters or had only tolerated cheating by others. The Air Force labeled the investigation "classified"; students who talked were threatened with dishonor able discharges and denial of the right to transfer their academic credits to an other school. It was, as one cadet parent put it, "a pretty strong weapon"−as well...
...breast? Keep an intelligent seven-year-old illegally out of school on the tendentious grounds that he hasn't yet asked to go? Permit children to defecate on the floor, Or break up the chairs in a rented, furnished house? Even the most dogmatically permissive parent or psychologist would certainly draw the line. Yet Tarl Pracket, the strange antiheroine of Bell Call, brings up her children just like that-and such is the hallucinatory power of the author that for brief instants Tarl even seems to have a valid case...
What a lot of parents believe, as one mother expresses it, is that "a parent who says to a child 'I don't know' is somehow better than one who says 'I know for sure.' " Inevitably many adolescents are left with few guidelines. "Their difficulty," says Harvard Historian Laurence Wylie, "lies not in living up to expectations, but in discovering what they really are." The result, according to University of California Sociologist Edgar Z. Friedenberg, is "the vanishing adolescent"-made to mature earlier, yet in many ways still engagingly immature. And since "part...