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...child beating has been mitigated by modern theories of child raising. Parents continue to kick and punch their children, twist their arms, beat them with hammers or the buckle end of belts, burn them with cigarettes or electric irons, and scald them with whatever happens to be on the stove. Gathering documentation from 71 hospitals, a University of Colorado team headed by Pediatrician C. Henry Kempe found 302 battered-child cases in a single year; 33 of the children died, 85 suffered permanent brain damage. An accompanying Journal editorial predicts that when statistics on the battered-child syndrome are complete...
...directed by an Englishman named Denis Mitchell. In one, he took a deep, lingering look at a small town in Kentucky, neither interpreting nor judging, using no narration at all, but merely assembling a collection of vignettes-a pig being killed by rifle, a woman cooking on a wood stove, an old Negro in a Frank Lloyd Wright hat-that were enough to make any viewer feel that he had lived in that town for 35 years. The only voices belonged to the townspeople-talking about the practice of country law, about their debt to God, or about the colored...
...time: April 1920. The place: a shabby eighth-floor attic in Moscow, where Yuli Martov, a leader of the defeated Social Democrats, is in hiding. As he is cooking supper on a tiny stove, he is interrupted by Sofia Markovna, a secret emissary from Lenin. Martov and Lenin were once the closest friends when both were Social Democrats, but since Lenin turned Bolshevik and later seized power, Martov is Lenin's bitterest enemy. Whispers the messenger: kindly Lenin, taking pity on his old buddy, has arranged to whisk Martov out of town before he is arrested. A seat...
...pocket, and I'm having a ball!" He chugalugged his beer and roared: "When in doubt, drink and shout!" That night, in a motel room. 24 boys and girls twisted to the music of a four-piece combo, adroitly avoiding two double beds, a table, a sink, a stove and a refrigerator. Cried a University of Miami coed: "Daytona Beach is the best place in the whole world!" That was precisely the reaction that Daytona Beach had hoped-and spent money-to evoke. In recent springs, U.S. college kids had been heading like lemmings to Fort Lauderdale, about...
...ducks under the covers. Mum (Virginia Maskell) staggers up, eyes like bruises, hair like last year's alfalfa. Puts the baby on the pot, the water on the stove. Dad sinks blissfully into stolen snooze. "Wake up!" squeals his darling daughter, knocking on his head with her knuckles-hard. "Ah, c'mon!" Mum squalls at the baby. "Yer not tryin'." Dad weaves toward the bathroom, battles an ancient geyser for five minutes, achieves a pathetic dribble of tepid water, starts to shave. "Breakfast!" Dad slumps groggily over his coffee. "Now don't be late, dear...