Word: parents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Renoir, My Father, by Jean Renoir. Life with a great impressionist painter and a charmingly quirky parent, fondly recollected by his gifted...
...When a freshman complained because a plate of hot soup was poured over him, he was told to keep quiet or face "the Dachau treatment," in which upperclassmen shout, "Jews stand up!" (or "Negroes stand up!" or "Are there any Chinese here?"), then taunt the victims. "I lost my parents there during the war," protested the freshman, but he was ordered to go through with the game. An indignant parent wrote a letter to a Rotterdam newspaper describing the incident, and soon a torrent of mail on the excesses of hazing was pouring in to papers across the land...
GOOD prep schools have in common one audacious aim: to be parent and teacher at the same time. To handle the parental role, they stress sports, discipline, manners, religion and democracy. To teach well, they accent intimate learning in classes that average nine students compared with the public school average of 28. Avoiding distractions, they generally offer spartan living on spacious, tradition-encrusted campuses, most of them in the Northeast. Despite these uniform methods, the schools that operate 24 hours a day come in all shapes and sizes...
...huge tax losses to carry forward, Studebaker went looking for profits against which to apply them. Says Egbert: "Every one of the companies we have bought was operating in the black." In many cases, Studebaker has been able to slice overhead by combining operations with its new subsidiaries. The parent company's styling department, for example, now serves all divisions. And so far, the diversification program has paid off handsomely: where it managed to avert a loss of $3,100,000 in 1961 only by selling off its plastics division, Studebaker showed a profit...
...York, transmitted by wire and printed in Los Angeles. Predictably, the new West Coast edition was a sellout at 100,000 copies-half of which went to subscribers by mail. At 10? a copy, the Western Times (every day but Sunday) costs twice as much as its Manhattan parent -and so far is about one-third as big. By eliminating all news of purely East Coast interest, it made its debut at a spare 32 pages. At week's end it was down to 20 pages, a slenderization due in part to the defection of first-blush advertisers...