Word: things
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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...
...child rearing, more time at lectures about children than any parents in the world-and it's been growing." Robert Coles, a child psychiatrist best known for his five-volume Children of Crisis, thinks that, if anything, children are unwholesomely overvalued by many parents: "They are the only thing the parents believe in. They don't believe in God, or in any kind of transcendence, and so they believe in their children. They are concerned with them almost in a religious way - which I think is unfortunate - as an extension of themselves. That is quite a burden...
...month, for $95,000 within 30 days-or move out. She was so upset that her blood pressure soared to 160 over 100, and she went into labor, giving birth prematurely that night to 6-lb. 3-oz. Eliot. "My doctor says the notice caused the whole thing," she insists...
...some city dwellers, owning an apartment is an even better hedge against inflation than owning a house. In Chicago, the little local joke is that condos are the hottest thing since Mrs. O'Leary's celebrated fire. They are appreciating at an annual rate of 14% to 15%, vs. 12% for single family homes, and turnover of the city's 43,000 condos is almost double that of other residential real estate. In Boston's Wellesley Green condo, a three-bedroom apartment in what its developers, Spaulding & Slye Corp., describe as a "luxury, luxury condominium...
...curious thing was that he had so little natural talent as an artist; no fluency, little relish. Magritte's paintings from the early '20s are painfully bad, academic cubism-as awkward, in their way, as the cubist paintings of another great ideas man of our time, Marcel Duchamp. Magritte had a poor sense of color, and his drawing was mere tracing; the paint surface is as dead as an old fingernail...