Word: giving
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...also creating a world where parents give things to their children instead of giving themselves. For example, a cab driver I had in Washington turned out to be a shoemaker who has taken a second job in order to be able to earn money to buy his kids a tape recorder and other expensive gifts for Christmas. The effect is, he's not going to see anything of his kids for a month and a half. This man is a good parent, but he just thinks that a new tape recorder is more valuable to his kids than...
...paying attention to our kids. Parents have been told by experts like me, "Let your child be himself," and that has been taken to mean: Let him grow up by himself. But children should not grow up associating only with other children because they haven't much to give to each other. I regard Dickens as one of the great child psychologists. Fagin, for example, was very clearly an evil man. But the Artful Dodger is a human being in every sense of the term. He's not alienated, because he has had dealings with someone...
...running team, he scored 34 touchdowns to set a new N.C.A.A. record for receivers. Says one scout: "He can judge the deep ball, can sense where the defender is and can make the big, game-turning play." As for running after the catch, one teammate says: "They ought to give Elmo a red light and a siren when he gets the ball. He's just flat dangerous...
...first nine months of 1970 called for annual increases averaging 10%. In a modern form of highway robbery, the militant Teamsters imposed a 15% increase, thus setting a target for the rest of organized labor. To head off what could have been a nation-paralyzing strike, Congress voted to give a boost of 13½% to some 350,000 railway workers. Wage-push inflation got its strongest nudge in construction; union craftsmen wrung out raises averaging 17½%. As a result, many skilled workers will be earning about $20,000 a year by 1972. Building pay is so lofty partly...
...class." He falls in love with both the girl and the country, but neither romance can sustain the burden of examination and analysis to which Adam constantly subjects them. The film is too slick by half, and often uses caricatures instead of characters. But it at least refuses to give simplistic answers to complex questions...