Word: parently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anyone wondered, "That's not to say I have sons who don't." As to the letter, though he didn't disagree with Konrad Jr., the 57-year-old Cologne businessman who had written it, neither had he been consulted beforehand. Explained the 88-year-old parent: "I believe in letting my children run free...
...identification in the relationship between the group and the group leader," was one that is common to all leaders "exercising a type of paternalism with the group." The group conceives of the leader as omnipotent, and the leader in turn "embraces the gratifying role of omnipotence" that every parent cherishes. Under some particularly trying circumstance, this illusion of omnipotence may "sweep the leader along to his destruction." The trying circumstance in Lee's case was that he was suffering from diarrhea, naively assumed by Southern historians to have been caused by the eating of fruit "in the fertile Pennsylvania...
...pint from bottles hidden in brown paper bags. Buzzing around them are children who frolic unsupervised far into the night, wearing latchkeys on strings around their necks because there is nobody at home to care for them. Half of Harlem's children under 18 live with only one parent or none, and it is small wonder that the juvenile delinquency rate is more than double New York's or that the venereal disease rate among Harlem's youth is six times higher than in the rest of the city. Harlem is a mother lode of such statistics...
...psychodynamics of the rock 'n' roller has long been a fertile field of motivational researchers. In the primitive Blue Suede Shoes era eight years ago, Elvis was first explained as father of a faintly menacing breed of children's crusaders marshaling the anti-parent instinct into a kind of teen-age Viet Cong. Later the diagnosis changed; the real rock addict was pronounced a "rhythmic obedient" whose craving for the big beat was only the expression of his frustrated wish to obey mother. Such findings were hardly helpful to the record industry in its search...
Timmy wounds his mother by forgetting that waffles used to be his favorite breakfast dish and enrages his father by refusing to attend Mass. More threateningly, he has sensed some of the sources of his parents' snarlingly bad relationship and is eager to discover more. The revelations come steadily but not patly. The frustrations of wife and life have made John irascible, intolerant and bitter. Nettie is sad-eyed, stiff-bodied, and given to sulky silences. She has ruled the family by veto power; he, in turn, has mutilated his wife's heart with incessant drinking...