Word: spock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seated with the Jerks. Kim's childhood, even as recounted by her family, was Spock-marked with classic difficulties. Her birth in Chicago on Feb. 13, 1933, came as a disappointment to her parents, Joseph and Blanche Novak, native Americans of Bohemian parentage, who had prepared only boys' names for the arrival. The Novaks named her Marilyn Pauline. Joe Novak, a claim clerk for the Milwaukee Railroad, is a melancholy, tight-lipped man whom little Marilyn tried hard to please; she seldom succeeded. Marilyn proved to be lefthanded; her father badgered her without success to use her right...
...Benjamin Spock, author of the bestselling (9,000,000 copies) The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care, and a co-chairman of the recently formed National Committee of Physicians and Surgeons for Stevenson, declared that a "high proportion" of psychiatrists are also Democrats, but "their hands are tied" in telling the public. Reason: the disclosure would "disturb their Republican patients and interfere with the healing process...
...Benjamin Spock's Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care, by which millions of U.S. children are now being raised, is no Freudian text by a long shot, but most...
...infallible, but as the harassed mother of a lively one-year-old I want to nominate Dr. Spock...
Strangely, Drs. Spock and Lowenberg seem not to have got the word that spinach, far from being a great bodybuilder, can actually be bad for growing children (TIME, March 30, 1953). All they concede is that if it causes chapping of the lips or anus, it is well to "omit it for several months and try again." That sounds more like old Dr. Holt...