Word: parents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vanishing in Japan is the good old days when women lived by the precepts of the 17th century Onna-Daigaku (Great Learning for Women). A sample: "The five worst maladies that afflict the female mind are indocility, discontent, slander, jealousy and silliness. The worst of them all, the parent of the other four, is silliness." The duty of a wife was simply to produce children-sons, not daughters. For 250 years under the Tokugawa Shoguns, Japan's population was kept stable largely by female infanticide.* Of the girls permitted to live, those who became prostitutes in order to support...
Impressed by his flair for the grand, vote-getting gesture, a dissident minority persuades the hero to give the big punk (Nehemiah Persoff) in the parent union a run for his expense money. But just before election time, the cops find out about those watches. So the jig's up? Nonsense. The election is won. What decent, self-respecting union man. the hero blandly wants to know, could deny his vote to a fellow who had stolen $750,000 from some great big impersonal insurance company, and then turned every last penny of it over to the working...
...current exhibition at Fogg reflects the interest and enthusiasm of Harvard undergraduates in the pursuit of quality. There are paintings here, as well as drawings and prints; there is also an occasional hint of the presence of parent collections amidst examples of more direct commitment and sacrifice. But, in any case, the element of choice and decision is present throughout...
...Missouri's back-country-dominated house of representatives may pass Bruffett's bill, but it stands virtually no chance of survival in the more sophisticated senate. Said a state school official wearily: "If a child has had the home and church training he should have had, a parent would not have to worry. We believe in entitling our people to the freedom to teach as they and their superiors see fit and that freedom should not be legislated...
...check list of danger signals. Their belief is that while medical science gropes for definitive measures, attention to these signals "will prolong life for many at this time." First comes heredity: granted that "You are 'stuck' with your heredity," the group contends that if either a parent or grandparent died prematurely of arterial disease, "it is most important that you minimize the effect of the other factors." The others: being overweight by ten pounds or more, a high level of cholesterol in the blood, high blood pressure, smoking too much. For all these, the physicians' advice...