Word: parents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Childhood explores the shadowy fantasy life of youngsters and the bad phone connection between parent and child that keeps each from ever quite understanding the other. It shimmers with the subtle and subdued radiance of Our Town, the unique Thornton Wilder signature that no one else in the U.S. theater can convincingly forge. Two girls and a boy, aged 13, 10 and 8, play what Mother calls one of their "morbid" games, "Funeral." In the game, Father and Mother have died in a bloody accident, and the children gather in church to praise them with faint damns. Mother was nice...
...picture begins with a casual case of rape. The victim is a college girl (Carroll Baker, in private life Mrs. Garfein) who goes skipping through a New York City park alone after dark. When she comes to, she tidies her clothes, staggers home, sneaks upstairs past her prudish parent (Mildred Dunnock). In a meticulous ritual of hysteria, she cuts up her torn clothes, flushes them down the drain, pops into bed as if nothing had happened, as if out of sight were really out of mind...
...What has changed," writes Mrs. Purtell, "is the feeling of adult responsibility [which makes parents try] to find the reasons behind so many of the actions which alarm them." In her briskly written, though not startlingly new, account of parents' problems and ways to solve them, Author Purtell deals with such phenomena as going steady, parties, the adolescent revolution, and the adolescent and alcohol. Like Tiffany's Hoving, Parent Purtell advises nonchalance and an understanding hand with the kids. Parents, she says, "should stop torturing themselves...
...published every day but Sunday, the Western Times hopes to attract regional ads with a package deal: advertisers can buy space in either the Western or parent edition, or both. But while the paper will compete with Western dailies for advertisements, it does not intend to compete for local news coverage. Western subscribers will get the New York Times minus those stories of purely parochial East Coast interest...
...headmistress is Reiner's freethinking wife Alice. "We try hard not to impose phony adult standards.'' she says. "They learn by doing. If they want to take off all their clothes, that's perfectly all right with us. The parents aren't quite ready for that yet, but they did agree that the girls could strip down to bikinis." Says a parent: "They learn without realizing they're learning. It makes us feel like such good parents...