Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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THE battle today is not between children and parents; the battle is between society on one side and families on the other, and we've got to reorder things so that human values can again get some recognition. I have a great deal of sympathy for the anger and...
We are 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...
We did a cross-cultural study in child-rearing practices in America and West Germany. Of course we expected that German parents would be stricter than American parents, and, sure enough, they were. But they were also more affectionate and spent more time with their children. Perhaps when we think...
Like animated scarecrows in black robes and bamboo hats, the eight monks bend in prayer around a sacred fire. The smoke is lost in the black pall gushing from a nearby paper mill. Suddenly, the heftiest of the mendicants bellows in a throaty bass: "In the name of God, know...
Japan's big polluters are in big trouble. For four months, industries across the country have been blasted by a group of belligerent Buddhists who call themselves kogai higyoshu jusatsu kitosodan ("the prayerful band of monks dedicated to imprecating curse and death on polluting industrialists").