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...green Manhattan office. "Seventeen has grown up," said Mrs. Valentine with a catch in her voice. "It's a big girl now . . ." Like a mother who has watched her daughter growing away from her, "Mrs. V." was reluctantly ready to say goodbye. Silently, the staff filed by to shake her hand; several girls wept...
...mother was exhorted to be "good, honest, cheerful and orderly, because whatever kind of behavior she portrayed, the child would imitate . . . Mothers occupied a position of importance which they have never since recovered. This was the day when Mother knew best; there was no book, no scientific authority to shake her maternal self-con fidence . . . Her 'instincts' were right." She was not told when to feed the baby, nor was she told...
...child proceeds through Denver's schools, he is not forced too hard to learn things he is not ready to learn; nor is he often kept back a grade. That, in the view of Superintendent Oberholtzer, would shake his self-confidence. Through high school, he has a special counselor who tries to adapt his curriculum as much as possible to fit his wants, abilities and needs. Explains Oberholtzer: "You can't give the same educational fare to all children, any more than you can give all Americans the same breakfast food every morning." Only by bending the curriculum...
...upon U.N. members to withdraw ambassadors from Madrid as evidence of disgust with the Franco dictatorship. Since then the U.S. Embassy has been manned by a career charge d'affaires whose attitude of official coolness was frequently compromised by junketing U.S. Congressmen and businessmen streaming through Madrid to shake hands with General Franco...
...Michel de Cuxa, or toward the Canigou, the mountain which lies near the Catalonian border. He seldom heads toward the center of the town; the townspeople of Prades are inordinately proud of Pablo Casals, the great musician who lives among them in self-exile, and he would have to shake the hand of everyone...