Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sister Lied." For many a modern mother the Bible is an alarming compendium of nightmare fodder. Jehovah's slaughter of Egypt's first-born and his drowning of everybody but the Noahs, says Edith Hunter, have struck terror to many a young heart. Children brought up on The Little Golden Books should be ex posed to Scripture with extreme caution...
...sister lied today," said a Roman Catholic seven-year-old. "She said Jesus could stand there and tell a mountain to move, and it would. She lied, because no one can do that." His father said, "Perhaps the sister merely thought Jesus could do that. She wasn't lying if she really thought so." Parents, says Liberal Hunter, should stress to their children that "it is all right to have different ideas about things...
...beach with several faculty wives, sewing a but ton on a shirt (in the play he was accused of lying naked on the beach with a school master who was generally suspected of homosexuality). The story goes the rounds, and soon the other fellows are calling him "Sister Boy.'' Tom's father (Edward Andrews), an umbilical undergraduate, who after 25 years is still unable to cut the old school tie. is bitterly disappointed that his boy is not a "regular guy.'' On a visit to school, he urges Tom to get himself a crew...
...course, considering its relatively small size, group planning is the best method to keep the Tufts community constantly united. The college itself, the biggest unit of the university, has 2300 undergraduates including its sister institution, Jackson College. Of this number almost 800 students are daily commuters...
Several such blatant examples of inequity were corrected only after embarassing public protest. The Air Force removed Lt. Milo Radulovitch as a reserve officer because his sister was a Communist, and the Navy Department suspended a cartographer, Abraham Chasanow, on the basis of derogatory rumors that were proved baseless. Chasanow's case illustrated the injustice to government employees caused by the operations of the Eisenhower program. Under severe economic and financial hardship during his 13-month suspension, Chasanow was denied an opportunity to confront the witnesses who had testified against...