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Some days I look in the mirror, see my mother looking back and, after the shock passes, give in to it. Why was I so sure I could do it better? As Letty Cottin Pogrebin says in Getting Over Getting Older, it's not so much our fading youth we worry about as our fading future. Hillary may have talked wistfully about adopting a child just as Chelsea was planning to leave home, not for the family-values vote, as cynics suggested, but to duplicate her one unambiguous triumph, the most successful and important enterprise of her life...
...they sometimes seem to cover it, like drifting snow over new paths. Indeed, should the father have persevered, he might have found some first-rate advice about children in that very same book. He would also have found a kind of zip-lock naivete that insulates Author Letty Cottin Pogrebin inside a cocoon of ideology. How else could a writer suggest, never mind believe, that children might be encouraged to forsake the music of the Rolling Stones (sexist, of course) for the uplifting ballads of Gay Feminist Holly Near. Ideology infringes on reality; one suspects it can also skew...
...Growing Up Free, Pogrebin...
...Pogrebin, 41, has done her homework: eight years of research and writing, 16 of marriage and 15 of child rearing went into the book. She says of herself and her husband Bert, 46, a labor lawyer: "For the first few years I'm sure we raised Abigail and Robin, our twins [girls, now 15] the regular way, surrounded by dolls and carriages." In 1970 Pogrebin, a Brandeis graduate at 19 who had risen to vice president of the publishing firm of Bernard Geis Associates, wrote a book called How to Make It in a Man 's World. Preparing...
Today the Pogrebin family is the best advertisement for Growing Up Free. Letty and Bert, sitting around the dinner table in their turn-of-the-century, oak-paneled apartment on Manhattan's West Side, look slightly abashed when they talk about their successfully egalitarian marriage. "Things have turned out very well," says Bert, who credits luck and economic good fortune, as well as Letty's "overactive metabolism." Says he: "She never accepted efficiency as a means of allocating responsibility. I could never say she should do the dishes because she did them better." Replies Letty: "But he never...