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...daughter, a girl of fifteen, cannot understand why a longtime friend suddenly prefers lipstick and dresses to swimming and sweatshirts. Not an uncommon problem, one supposes,--yet the expression of fear on the girl's face as she tries to fit together her friend's attitude with her parent's impending divorce indicates that she is seeing it in a peculiarly painful way. "Love," the daughter cries at one point, "I never want to be in love...
Mother & Son. She writes economically about his early years in Asheville, N.C., where his mother kept a boarding house called the Old Kentucky Home, his father ran a marble yard, and each parent occupied a separate dwelling. Wolfe's seven brothers and sisters drifted aimlessly back and forth between the two, sleeping where they pleased; but the youngest child stayed with his mother. A little boy with long curls, Thomas Clayton Wolfe was not weaned until he was 3½, and slept beside his mother until he was "a great big boy." All this is background...
...Twelve hundred delegates of the Textile Workers' Union convention in Chicago ignored the ruling of the parent A.F.L.-C.I.O. forbidding any preconvention endorsement, roaringly acclaimed Kennedy as their choice. But the leaders of 78 A.F.L.-C.I.O. unions, polled by Chicago's Roosevelt University, favored Stevenson by a 2-1 margin over Kennedy and Symington...
...reference to your article on pornography v. the U.S. teen-ager [May 16], I as an adolescent am revolted by the way every status-seeking parent wishes to shield us from some Gargantuan force known as sex. To wipe sex out of our lives, they will have the Herculean task of i) destroying 7$% of the advertisements seen on TV, 2) razing every bookstore, newsstand and publishing house from coast to coast, 3) bankrupting the film industry, and 4) installing blinders on every red-blooded teenager...
...been taken drunk in the living room. Answer: explain later to the date that father is an alcoholic and a sick person. Through discussions, lectures and films, they explore the broader problem of alcoholism. But their study is not aimed at helping them to help a drinking parent to reform or even find his way to AA. That is a job for the alcoholic himself. Alateens seek an understanding of the problem and a way to live with it. "When it works," explained a Fort Worth adult counselor, "they quit trying to change the things they can't change...