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...early and important symptom of trouble, says Greenspan, is the failure of mother or child to look at each other. Greenspan makes videotapes of such cases. Here is Amanda, age four months, who turns her head away and generally shows what Greenspan calls "an active avoidance of the human world." Small wonder. Amanda's mother was raising her alone and suffered bouts of deep depression. Greenspan and his therapists spent four months playing with Amanda and engaging her interest; the videotape taken at eight months shows the baby cheering her mother along. Says Greenspan, with some satisfaction: "She developed...
...making creative and unorthodox intellectual connections. "Every Japanese child," says one writer, "has a kind of invisible wire rack inserted into its body and mind," like flowers in an arrangement, like a bonsai tree. The Japanese examination system subjects the young to purgatories of cramming. It is one more symptom of a densely determined and obligated life, and some of the young these days are escaping into a sort of minor league anarchy...
...exercises can help diabetics maintain steadier glucose levels. At Children's Orthopedic Hospital in Seattle, Dr. William Womack helps youngsters contend with the strains of growing up. Kurt Russell, 16, was immobilized by migraines for days at a time until Womack taught him a self-hypnosis technique. Now symptom-free, the teen-ager travels twice a day to a peaceful place in his mind. "You imagine yourself in the woods or skiing," says Russell. "It's pretty neat...
...thought of "Light and Dark Imagery" manages to be both terribly simple and terribly scattered. The paragraphing, which appears to have been done by a food professor rather than a word professor, is a symptom of the utter absence of any organizing ideas beyond the examples themselves: Presentation here sadly mirrors preconception, both of them so careless as to be virtually absent. This might slip by with a D-, if the "author" has had bad lighting and good luck working...
Perhaps the Yard is only another symptom of over-expansion: might it not be that the University has become the Cosmopolis of Spengler, a huge petrifact, whose inhabitants view it exclusively as the instrument of their individual advancement or pleasure? In that event, it would be useless to expect anyone to concern himself with a matter so marginal as the beauty of the institution itself. John Bovey...