Word: priggishness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...professionals always say to be open, honest and a good listener. What they don't say is how hard that can be. Maybe, like me, you're mortified at your own geekiness. Maybe you're afraid of sounding judgmental, priggish or foolish. So start small. Debra Haffner, author of the terrific book From Diapers to Dating, says parents should avoid "the big talk" and instead take advantage of everyday "teachable moments." Three-year-olds should be taught the proper names for their body parts, and five-year-olds should know basically where babies come from. Don't give young children...
...that may be sinister and that may become the more captivating the more it simulates reality. Usually the play, a form of testing and learning, is not fatal. But boys back to the dawn of human experience have had it in their bones to play violent games. Even the priggish Henry Adams, as a boy in the middle of the 19th century, joined the Latin School's army in a bloody rock-in-the-snowball battle on Boston Common against a mob of "blackguards from the slums...
...Colonel Ludlow (Anthony Hopkins) and the wife who has very sensibly left him named their firstborn Alfred and their last born Samuel, and both are pretty normal, boring American boys--the former (Aidan Quinn) perhaps a little too priggish and self-serving, the latter (Henry Thomas) perhaps a little too simpy and idealistic. But in the middle there's Tristan (Brad Pitt, with a long, irritating mane of hair, doing his James Dean imitation...
...Colonel Ludlow (Anthony Hopkins) and the wife who has very sensibly left him named their firstborn Alfred and their last born Samuel, and both are pretty normal, boring American boys -- the former (Aidan Quinn) perhaps a little too priggish and self-serving, the latter (Henry Thomas) perhaps a little too simpy and idealistic. But in the middle there's Tristan (Brad Pitt, with a long, irritating mane of hair, doing his James Dean imitation...
Ogden sometimes seems unreasonably priggish when discussing Harriman's sexual pursuits. "Christians, Muslims, Jews, agnostics, she was an equal- opportunity playgirl and eventually sampled them all," he writes. He is lucky that she did. If Harriman had been more demure and straitlaced, Ogden never would have been able to ride the best-seller lists with this entertaining book...