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When the children were old enough to begin walking, they were helped out by a colonial version of a gocart. They were also put in a "standing stool," a small playpen of sorts. Bathing, as we practice it, was unknown. The bowl and pitcher were available, but children were not constantly washed and covered with powder or oil. As for play, some of the sterner, Puritanical parents were suspicious of games-especially so in New England -and indeed of anything that prompted laughter and enjoyment. Nevertheless, children were permitted to play sports, receive toys and in general behave at times...
Children will get their own waiting area. "Kids need a different kind of waiting room, with a playpen and a bunch of toys," Wacker said...
Even the totally paralyzed are enjoying the toy show. They are particularly enchanted by the "trammock," a basket-shaped, rubber-rimmed combination playpen and hammock that is suspended from the ceiling. Seated inside it, immobile children can be swung round and round or bounced up and down, giving them, says Sandhu, "the miraculous feeling of movement in space...
...most curious experiment in public entertainment-a theater without a stage show, a cabaret without food or liquor, a party without an occasion. To its proprietor, a 25-year-old former talent agent named Ruflfin Cooper, Cerebrum is "an electronic studio of participation." Others have called it a "psychedelic playpen" and a "McLuhan geisha house." However defined-and perhaps it can't be-Cerebrum is an experience...
Second, students are asking the University to tear down all the playpen fences. School, they contend, should be reduced to a place where one takes his studies, and no more. The University should not restrict students at all. One evidence of this school of thought is the movement to abolish parietals. Another is the contention of some that the University should not protect them from outside police and should not place them in double jeopardy either...