Word: tenderness
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...word for those who fear that analgesia in childbirth is inconsistent with the biblical "In sorrow shalt thou bring forth children." Painkilling in labor, said the Pontiff, is an honest, moral endeavor, "so long as no danger ... results for either mother or infant, and so long as the tender sentiments of parenthood are neither diminished nor destroyed...
...civic and political groups have asked for a permanent injunction against the bill, which would root "disloyal" teachers out of New York public schools. These organizations claim the law would install "thought control" in the Empire State. The bill's framers say their measure will protect "children of tender years" from the Communist ideology...
Guarding America's children against classroom Communism-or any other dogma-is a good cause; no instructor who propagandizes during working hours should teach youngsters of "tender" or any other age. But the Legislature and the Board of Regents have created a protection system which provides quite a primer for New York's children, who should be learning what democracy is really like...
...delicate balance between discipline and affability--taking refuge in a severity which was lightened only by dry puns. The climax occurs when a member of his alienated Greek class presents him, on his retirement, with a copy of Browning version of the "Agamemnon"--second hand--inscribed with a tender quote from Aeschulus. The master breaks into tears and later reveals his unrequitted attempts at winning the affection of his classes and his sexually unsatisfied wife...
What no one-including Bargy, her husband and her friends-was prepared for was the astonishingly tender look which TV's normally harsh eye gives Jeanne at the piano. A tall, earnest girl with no pretensions to beauty, Jeanne Bargy on television somehow becomes small, sadly romantic and nicely sexy. Her songs (the blues in Blues by Bargy refer more to her voice than her repertory) are plaintive ballads; her delivery and pace are a restful contrast to TV's frequently scratchy and perfervid fare, her touch on the keyboard deft, efficient and unobtrusive...