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...father, a seaman named Alfred, left home shortly after John was born, and his mother Julia sent him to her sister Mimi because, it was said, she could not support her child. John was 4½ when he was farmed out to the suburbs All the sorrow, rage and confusion of this early boyhood were taken up again and again in songs like Julia and Mother. These early years were not an unhealed wound for Lennon, but more nearly a root, a deep psychic wellspring from which he could draw reserves of hard truth...
...interested in boys than in building skills like math. Since the rise of feminism, however, female underachievement in math has been generally chalked up to sexism: the low expectations of parents and teachers are said to produce a 'reverse Pygmalion effect." According to Educator Elizabeth Fennema and Psychologist Julia Sherman, in an article on the subject, "Sexual stereotyping of mathematics as a male domain operates through a myriad of subtle influences from peer to parent and within the girl herself...
...second hour, 8 to 9, is less eventful. There is an interview with a Hollywood couple who lost their home in a brushfire and a taped 2½-minute segment in which Julia Child shows how to cook johnnycakes. After the show, Hartman tapes an eleven-minute interview with former Basketball Star Bill Russell for a future show and then heads to his office down the street...
...divided like Gaul itself into three parts: classic, nouvelle and provincial. Many of the top chefs who miraculously find time to write these books are, hélas, unable to spread the flavors of their tables across the printed page. Louisette Bertholle provides a salivating exception. A collaborator with Julia Child and Simone Beck in Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Bertholle has written a comprehensive, down-to-earth guide to French family cooking that is both witty and percipient. Her French Cuisine for All (Doubleday; $19.95), meticulously edited for the American cook, covers the Gallic spectrum from country soups...
...then the first 42-minute mark rolled around. Williams fullback Julia Weyerhaeuser rolled the ball over the head of Crimson freshman goalkeeper, to cut the lead to a 2-1 at halftime...