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...baby has no inhibitions and urinates whenever the nerve centers of the bladder react to internal pressure. The trouble begins, says Lapides, with toilet training. A child, especially a girl, is rewarded with approval when it wakes up with dry diapers; boys are expected to be more undisciplined...
...speech and in a private note to Washington, Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser responded to the U.S. proposals. Washington had deliberately urged the Israelis to withhold their reply in order to give Nasser, fresh from 19 days of talks with his Soviet patrons in Moscow, time to react to Rogers' offer. To the delight of U.S. officials, Nasser's speech was relatively devoid of anti-American polemics and cautiously favorable. His note was even more accommodating, so much so that it placed the U.S. and Israel under tremendous pressure to reply in kind...
...more than a generation the philosophies, ideals, dreams, hopes and aspirations of the left have been put forth as the law of the land. In tones that brooked no argument, we have been told the way we should think and react. And who was there...
Selby deftly handles a protracted episode of comic business with a plate of toast in the second act. But there are a few tiny points he should be more careful about. For instance, he slightly anticipates being stopped by the minister, when he ought not react until he actually feels the hand...
...Some, like a college dean who complained about inadequate coverage of a cultural event, are even pleased to be proved wrong. After a visit from Herchenroeder, the dean wrote: "It is devastating to be indicted and found guilty in a courteous fashion. I appreciate the trouble you took to react to my overhasty note...