Word: relationships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Adams and I have known Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Goldfine for well over 15 years," he wrote. "We have entertained them in our home, and they have entertained us in theirs. We have had a close personal relationship...
...Adams-Goldfine friendship got a thorough going-over. Privately Adams remembered how he and his wife Rachel, trying for a little balance in their relationship with the free-spending Goldfine, once gave Goldfine a gold watch and at other times some of Mrs. Adams' oil paintings. But newsmen were more interested in a rumor (it was true) that Goldfine bought the Adamses a $2,400 Oriental rug from Macy's, and had a tailor make Adams a vicuna coat worth at least $500 retail (wholesale cost to Goldfine: about...
...hard liquor, said Dr. Godlewski, which most Frenchmen use sparingly, but ordinary red wine, or le gros rouge. Alcoholism is not the only contributing cause of cirrhosis, and may not lead to it at all if the rest of the diet is properly balanced. But the cause-and-effect relationship in France is so clear and so common that he calls cirrhosis of the liver la maladie du gros rouge. The vast majority of 8,000 victims studied had drunk two to three quarts of the stuff every...
...best schools in educationally-praised Westchester County, N.Y., really believed in this dichotomy of upbringing; certainly in her own school, which, many parents believed, was run by the PTA, she did not practice it. But her remark indicates a separatist view of the parent-school relationship which many educators, in their quiet, undisturbed hours, visualize as an ideal one: the school free from parental interference, at liberty to introduce the subjects it wishes and the textbooks it chooses, without the twitching nose of the community pressing against the window pane. It is this way with the best private universities; wouldn...
Obviously, this interdependence has many weaknesses, and many hazards. If the community is a relatively poor one, a halt-leading-the-blind relationship may occur, with mistake following ludicrous mistake down the trail of ignominy. In Cambridge, for example, the School Committee, the elected body of parents responsible for supervising the schools, tried to "improve" its school facilities by making a series of unnecessary appointments and promoting unqualified men to responsible jobs in the school system. In this case, the irresponsible action of one group of parents was rectified by another group of parents, who organized petitions and referenda...