Word: reade
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...only audience. As an example, Reston cites John Kenneth Galbraith, who has written a number of books on his experience as ambassador to India, but who failed to catch the ear of the nation because "he wasn't getting to the people when they are most attentive [when they read the newspaper]." If Galbraith had written an article syndicated for the major U.S. newspapers during the India-Pakistan crisis, he would have had a huge and attentive audience. To be able to use these people, newspapers could hold a special space reserved for experts in a number of different fields...
...Many Vitamins? Educators and child psychologists are generally skeptical about the home-teaching trend, particularly the teaching of reading. They have little doubt that some parents can teach some three-year-olds and four-year-olds to read-but why should they? "No one has really given any sound reason for doing so," says Psychologist William Kessen of Yale's Child Study Center. Myra Woodruff, recently retired chief of New York State's Bureau of Child Development and Parent Education, believes that the real motivation for many parents to teach their tots is that "it represents status...
Some critics fear that early instruction, like an overdose of vitamins, can be harmful. Dr. Paul J. Kinsella, director of the Developmental Reading Clinic at Lake Forest, IIl., figures that a young child's hearing and seeing are so disorganized that parental pressure to read may only confuse him or cause emotional blocks that would permanently impair his reading. Dr. Evelyn Pitcher, chairman of child study at Tufts University, recalls a four-year-old girl who could read, but "all other aspects of her development were neglected. She did not want to play, was not popular, and withdrew into...
Good for the Ego. Early reading has its defenders. Dr. Abram Blau, head of child psychiatry at Manhattan's Mt. Sinai Hospital, contends that "teaching young children anything that enlarges their ego is good for them," and "any activity that demonstrates a mother's emotional interest in her child is very important for a three-year-old." Many experts also applaud the games, art, musical records and picture books that help prepare a child for school but do not pressure him to read...
...losses. Next day they became mere pretenders again when Juan Marichal (record: 17-4) retired the first 17 Mets he faced, then inexplicably blew a five-run lead. The Philadelphia Phillies won seven games in a row, and Philly fans traded FIRE MANAGER MAUCH signs for new ones that read WE LOVE MAUCH...