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...single home is essential: children should not be shuttled between parents who have proved that they cannot get along. Psychiatric advice has traditionally tended to agree. The 1973 book Beyond The Best Interests of the Child, by Joseph Goldstein, Anna Freud and Albert J. Solnit, took the stark position that the parent with custody should have the right to deny visits by the noncustodial parent because those visits might undermine the child's stability...
...childhood, however, were not limited to portraits commissioned by the wealthy. Charming street urchins and the newly freed blacks were the subjects of other romanticized portraits, such as Seymour Guy's Little Sweeper (circa 1887) and Winslow Homer's A Sunflower for Teacher (1875). Later the stark, sepia-toned photographs of Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine documented much harsher childhoods on the streets of New York and in the mills of Georgia...
Orton's grisly end and stark beginnings enclose one of the most compelling biographies of the past year, a psychological study of egos in conflict, marred but not destroyed by Author John Lahr's overlong digressions into literary analysis...
...Jones used the cloak of the First Amendment to deprive his followers of the very things that it was designed to guarantee: their freedom to worship and speak as individuals. That so many would shut off their minds and abdicate their roles as questioning, feeling, thinking beings was a stark reminder that, after centuries of what rationalists would like to think of as progress, in 1978 the line dividing civilization from savagery was still tragically fragile...
...lusty-again woman is, and how detached an observer of the trend Klemesrud is, gets called into question, however, when "Backstage with Esquire" goes on to note: "Klemesrud is sending out Christmas cards this season that bear a striking photograph of her lying face down on a fur rug, stark naked...