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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that once, when one teen-aged boy dared another to seduce the school's middle-aged housekeeper, Assistant Headmaster Edward Reynolds had cracked, "I'll bet you a pound to a penny that you don't." Another witness said that the children were forever talking about sex in "short Anglo-Saxon words." A former matron at the school admitted having given one girl a contraceptive, though she recalled that Headmaster Copping had bawled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: How Progressive Can You Get? | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

From Copping's point of view, the whole case, which had been started on the complaint of a former Horsley Hall maintenance worker, was "preposterous." Though admitting that his pupils could visit in each other's bedrooms any time, he denied that at Horsley this led to sex relations, "not if they have been with us for more than a few weeks." Argued Copping's lawyer: "One of the most astonishing features in the case is that not a single parent has been called [by the prosecutor] to say they are dissatisfied with the way the children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: How Progressive Can You Get? | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...help the reader of good will. He says of the passage: "[The god is here] Noah or Neptune managing the sea. The point is to get puns for both violent disorder and building a structure . . . Cope-coping-stone and to manage, groynes-breakwaters, the meet of Gothic arches, the sex of the horses. The same kind of control is needed inside your head, a place also round and not well known (miner-"minor"), and it requires chiefly a clarifying connection with the outside world, e.g., by the arches of the eye, whose iris (rainbow) promises safety as to Noah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Coping With the Flood | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...playing Medea again, and to find that she has somewhat tempered her interpretation of the she-lion to make her more sympathetic. There are now instances to show that the embittered Asiatic does not lose her sense of humor, And, needless to say, she does not lose her sex impulse. Miss Anderson's Medea rages not only at the wrong done to her children and her pride but also at the coldness...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: The Playgoer | 4/16/1949 | See Source »

Owing to the natural dangers of the business, student baby sitters are allowed a certain amount of choice. Holl keeps a record of his sitter's preferences as to age, sex, and intensity of recreational activity of their charges. A man who likes to help older children with arithmetic can certainly do so if he wants. An especially talented diaper man likewise has plenty of chance to exercise his talents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Baby Sitting Business Pays For Study Time But Has Its Pitfalls | 4/14/1949 | See Source »

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