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...consider TV "contaminating." None of their five children (now aged 13 to 25) was allowed to watch. What about them now? Their oldest son, now a high school teacher in California, admits to smoking pot and is raising his two-year-old son on the laissez-faire principles of Scottish Educator A. S. Neill. But not on TV; the child will have to grow up without it. A fair number of videophobes are Quakers...
...past beckons like a man, and ritualistically, she riffles through the consolations and terrors of her childhood. Her only affection is for her forbidding Scottish father, who flashes by like something seen from a speeding train. He was an undertaker by profession, and so she also associates him with punishment and death. Sometimes her involuntary memory plunges into the future, and she wishfully imagines that she is cramming sleeping pills into her mother's mouth. It all smacks of paperback Freud-and so it could have been...
...HECKLE: Essentially evolved from the Midd'e English word hekele (to comb flax or to tease or ruffle hemp). An 1808 Scottish dictionary added the second definition of heckle as "to tease with questions...
...temporary independence" at the battle of Bannockburn in 1314 [July 19]? Millions of Scots are under the impression that they still have this independence, though it must be admitted that some are a bit upset about the consequences of the Act of Union, the voluntary coming together of the Scottish and English parliaments...
...French Érard piano decorated with carved brass. The store will calmly take an order for a baby elephant-a $4,800 present for U.S. Republican Ronald Reagan from a friend-or a head of cabbage requested by telephone in the dead of night. It can find the Scottish piper wanted to pipe in the haggis or hire the entire regimental band of the Coldstream Guards; it can arrange a 1,000-guest party or a richly refined funeral. The store's export department, which grossed over $7 million last year, has sent gooseberries to Saudi Arabia, fresh flowers...