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...nightingale is singing. As Lady Jane expected, they take advantage of propinquity. And as she also expected, flighty Sybil is sorely disappointed that her spiritual affinity has carnal appetites. To send Sybil back to her husband with a clear conscience and a shut mouth, to shock Liza into decent behavior, Lady Jane then tells her girls that for years she has been the mistress of a man who has just been made Viceroy of India. That seems to settle everything...
...actions have seemed to a kindly and learned man in New Haven to be of supreme importance to Science. Fruit of that belief appeared last week in the form of a monumental, 15½-lb. compendium in two volumes, illustrated with 3,200 action photographs: An Atlas of Infant Behavior,* by Arnold Lucius Gesell, M. D., Ph.D., Sc.D., director of Yale University's Clinic of Child Development...
...Gesell has subtitled his work: "A systematic delineation of the forms and early growth of human behavior patterns." A baby's mind grows like his body, and like his body, his psychological make-up is an organic structure. It is revealed at any stage in behavior forms. Infantile behavior is vastly complex, but not, Dr. Gesell was certain, beyond recording...
...took instant command of the situation, reduced the other to submission. The bully got 97% of the food, started all but a negligible percentage of the fights, never cowered, seldom retreated. To this treatment the browbeaten monkey responded by passivity, cringing, flight, or female sex behavior, regardless of the sex of the pair...
...work among Southern mill children and psychiatric treatment of rich "problem children" in Manhattan, Dr. Adams is married, childless. Her book is a guidebook to children, "a unique, interesting and likable class of human beings." Her advice to parents is never dogmatic. Interspersed with references to numerous moppets whose behavior has been minutely observed and recorded by psychologists, it may lead impartial readers to conclude that children are a terrifying breed, that successfully applying psychologists' advice to them is a matter of luck alone...