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...interested in both the physical and emotional care of the child, and I also wanted to write a book that did not scold the parent. Too many authors say 'Don't do this, you'll harm the child; watch out, you'll kill the child ...' I wanted to encourage and reassure mothers...
...remarkably closed mind. Religion is hypocrisy. Armies are idiotic. The British upper classes are smugly ignorant of life; the lower classes are self-taught fanatics and uncouth blackguards. As destiny's dutiful darling, G.B.S. slays these asses with his jawbone. Minus his customary wit, Shaw is a nagging scold. In a final soliloquy, delivered with fine evangelistic fervor by Robert Preston, the great iconoclast pitiably begs for an icon worthy of his worship...
Unlikely Proposition. These views, and others just as provocative, bloom in the barren soil of Boston, a city so unappreciative of common scolds that in the old days it put them in pillory. Many readers of the Boston Herald, where Frazier's column appears six times a week, write in to suggest that such punishment is much too good for the Herald's uncommon scold. George Frazier, 52, is possibly the most roundly despised man in Boston-and the most widely read...
Grips and bit-players who a month ago talked of taking ads in the Hollywood Reporter to scold Marilyn for costing them their jobs in Something's Got to Give suddenly realized that the something was Marilyn. They joined bigger stars and gossip columnists in an orgy of self-incrimination-a morbid way of boasting that to have helped kill her was, after all, proof of having known her intimately. "In a way we're all guilty," Hedda Hopper concluded. "We built her up to the skies, we loved her, but left her lonely and afraid when...
...wife to a farewell dinner at Khrushchev's private dacha. For three hours, they drank toasts, ate their way through eight courses including Siberian pheasant and Kamchaka crab, "more or less covered the waterfront" on diplomatic issues. "We have a very free and easy relationship," said Thompson. "He scolds me and I scold...