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This, according to the dominant theory of education lumped under the name of John Dewey, is a desirable development of their "social skills." By cutting short the pigtail pulling and stuck-out-tongue phase that kids usually go through, parents feel that they are helping their youngsters bypass the awkward age. Learning early how to handle themselves socially and dress smartly, the children become well-adjusted and popular...
...understand talk of obligation; they could not quite see the problem. Said Sardar: "At work I get on well with my mates. Everyone calls me Sam and is friendly. Why shouldn't my children have a decent home to live in like other children?" Fingering her long pigtail, her kohl-ringed eyes wide with nervousness, his wife said, "I don't understand what's happening...
Hollywood would not look twice at India's Lata Mangeshkar. Tin-Pan Alley might cover its ears. But last week plain little Lata, her hair braided in a pigtail, drove to one of Bombay's biggest movie studios, was ushered up to a mike, and the sweet, childish voice that struggles to rise above the accompaniment was nursed through its 6,000th recording. For 16 years, barefoot Lata has been putting on sound tracks the songs that Indian actresses fake when they appear on the screen. Now, at 29, she is the undisputed and indispensable queen of India...
With her waist-length pigtail, goofy clowning and hillbilly charm, Comedienne Burnett seems to have escaped from a cartoonist's drawing board. Whether she is quaffing one goblet of mead too many, chewing the wax grapes in her corsage and spitting out the seeds, or opening her mouth to grapefruit size to bellow that she's Shy, Actress Burnett makes her musical comedy debut a choicely comic event...
...army of 40,000 "God-worshipers," as they called themselves, began a march on Peking from about 300 miles west of Canton. They wore their hair long, shunning the shaved head and braided pigtail as marks of Manchu enslavement, and took spirited noms de guerre-"Enemy-Breaking," "Rush on Foe," "Report Success." "God is the father of the generals of this army," Hung told his men. The God-worshipers swarmed down the Yangtze River valley and into Nanking, covering 1,400 miles in 27 months...