Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that elaborate-and sometimes cruel-attention to the subject of children in the past presupposed one thing: their inevitability. The great changes in attitudes toward children today may revolve around three factors: 1) Whereas children in earlier, rural settings were economically valuable, needed for their labor, today they are a painfully expensive proposition (according to one estimate, the average middle-class family spends $100,000 to raise a child); 2) Children are no longer considered a necessary and inevitable part of marriage; and 3) For reasons of feminism and/or sheer economic need, more women than ever before are working...
...having children - everyone has told them how sick the family is - and then awake in astonished delight to find that the experience is (or can be) wonderful. It is possible that the U.S., with its long history of elaborate delusions about children, is beginning to grow up on the subject. - Lance Morrow
Neal A. Levine, associate professor of Fine Arts, said this week the subject matter of Fine Arts 175a is the key to the new course's success. "It's an important subject because buildings are something you see all the time," he added...
...point, Yates' arguments make sense: everyone should have the right to determine his or her own competence. As long as people are made to realize that the alternative to a successful trip may be death or injury, then their decision to go should not be subject to government intervention...
...London) and Max Robinson in Chicago (Monday night he did not appear). They anchor the broadcast because, as the advertisements put it, they are where the news is being made. The multi-anchor system attempts to capitalize on the television audience's presumed inability to concentrate on one subject at a time. The constant motion, supposedly, generates pace and action. The idea is a waste--anchormen rarely leave their offices, and their sole purpose is to introduce the film segments and provide a stable rhythm. The triple anchor system created visual anarchy which prevented a clear flow and added nothing...