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...Spock is responsible for a whole generation of spoiled brats, it was Bill Gaines who propelled baby-boomer smart-aleckism to giddy new heights. Long before the Nickelodeon cable channel (whose sensibility is significantly Mad-derived), before Father Knows Best seemed campy, before every other ninth- grader wore sideburns and shades, Gaines' magazine was the only place for children to have an uncensored glimpse behind the perky facade of '50s bourgeois life. It was where they could get clued in to the fatuousness of civics-book sanctimony, to the permutations of suburban phoniness, to grown-up dissembling and insincerely sincere...
Guns don't commit crimes, parents do. From tales of incest and divorce to complaints of less serious parental shortcomings, everyone seems to be blaming Mom and Pop for whatever ails. Get ready for lawyers pleading the Dr. Spock Defense...
...large favor the Establishment, FAIR seeks to focus "public awareness on the narrow corporate ownership of the press, the media's persistent cold war assumptions and their insensitivity to women, labor, minorities and other public interest constituencies." Its eclectic board includes writer Studs Terkel, pediatrician Dr. Benjamin Spock, renowned thespians Daryl Hannah and Edward Asner, singer Jackson Browne and third-tier rock star Steve Van Zandt, the former guitarist with Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band...
America's two most famous pediatricians, T. Berry Brazelton of Harvard and Benjamin Spock, worry about the disappearance of discipline, particularly when both parents work. "Parents don't want to spend what little time they have with their children reprimanding them," says Spock. "This encourages children to push limits and test parental authority." Brazelton is also concerned that working mothers are so overwhelmed by guilt that they "detach | from the baby, because it's the only way they have of coping...
...Spock is replaced by two characters in the new series, an android named Data and a Klingon called Worf. Neither is as fascinating as the pointyeared Vulcan. Data rattles off facts and makes bad jokes, while Worf struggles with his loyalty to the Federation, just as Spock questioned whether to ally himself with Vulcans or humans...