Word: pauls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...boys, both named Paul, both juniors, come in. One admits his parents have separated only this week. "Isn't it a wonderful feeling, alone and left out?" laughs Martha, immediately sobering and repeating sympathetically, "Are you alone and left out?" "Yeah," says Paul...
...other Paul's parents were divorced some years ago. "I wish I had had a group like this then. My sister and I were the ones who stopped the rights. Now I get along with my stepmother better than my father. She's a lot younger." Lorraine exclaims, "Oh, that's excellent. She remembers what it's like to be young." His father, Paul reports, is "sliding toward middle age, about...
...long divorced Paul wonders if anyone knows what causes divorce. They all do. Lorraine says, "The whole purpose in life for our mothers, even going to college, was to be married. I couldn't imagine getting married so soon." She demands to know why you should get married anyway. Just to have kids? Why not adopt? It might be unfair to the kid, someone suggests. Probably, kids need both parents, they agree, both role models, to learn about relationships. They concur, tentatively, that parents themselves might need both parents to raise kids...
...real world. President Carter came to Lynn to campaign for Paul E. Tsongas and to try to avoid associating himself with Edward J. King. Despite Carter's snub, King won the gubernatorial race, joining Tsongas in the Democratic sweep...
Many people prefer a grander view, however; they see the bill as an indicator of the government's outlook on education. Paul N. Ylvisaker, dean of the Graduate School of Education, says the prevailing attitudes are being shaped by people who no longer have children in school. "The parents of those in school are in the minority," says Ylvisaker, adding that the national feeling towards education is unfavorable. Current government spending problems and reordering of national priorities threaten, as one longtime observer puts it, "to once again leave education out in the cold." The battle over a Cabinet-level Department...