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...head does not. (Who taught my mother to iron so well?) Whoever it was, they're more sophisticated now: my little sister isn't told don't be too smart, you'll scare the boys away, but go ahead, boys like girls who think. And a Harvard shrink told me last year: "Men are unhappy because there is nothing, women because there is no one." Harvard shrink is a man. What he says is effect, not cause; women learn that there is only one route to happiness. I understand this; my head does...
...pulling together is by no means extinct in this country." Coles is delighted to meet "16-year-old men and women growing up with a definite sense of identity, just working hard and trying to get a paycheck, somehow being responsive to their parents?and not going to a shrink five times a week...
...upraised red hand tattooed on a forearm and is fiercely proud of the sash of his Loyal Orange Order lodge. "It's handed down for generations," he says. "My father belonged, and he handed his sash down to my elder brother." Ball says he would not shrink from the showdown he fully expects - even though "if I was to get shot and die tonight, Maureen would get only an Orange widow's benefit of about ten or 1 5 pounds...
...parents to show their children how to use it sanely. As he points out, "Authorities on alcohol report that alcoholism is least likely not among the children of abstainers, but among those who grew up in families where alcohol is used moderately." Kaplan also argues that his scheme would shrink the market for harder drugs by providing a legal and convenient alternative...
...would love to be able to write: "These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph...