Word: strangers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...evident. He hopes that your mornings are absolutely still except for birds, but that the evenings bulge with human outcry, families calling to one another in the darkening hours. He wishes you small particulars: a letter received indicating sudden affection, an exchange of wit with a total stranger, a moment of helpless hilarity, a flash of clarity, the anticipation of reading a detective thriller on a late afternoon in an electric storm...
...interviewed. The answer, devised in 1969 by University of Virginia Psychologist Mary Ainsworth, was the strange-situation test, usually conducted on children twelve to 18 months old. It consists of a series of episodes in which the child is alternately visited and left by its mother and by a stranger, culminating with the stranger's departure and the mother's return. The researcher watches the child's responses from behind a one-way mirror. Secure children, it was thought, are less upset by the stranger's arrival and are easily comforted when the mother returns. The assumption is that...
...long. Most early studies were conducted with children in high- quality day-care centers, usually at universities. Psychologists next began to look at more typical settings. The analysis of the strange-situation test changed, placing less emphasis on the child's reaction to the stranger than on its attitude toward the returning mother. Some initial results were unsettling. Day-care children were more likely to remain anxious even after the parent had come back. Some actively avoided their mother. Last September in a report published in the journal Zero to Three, Belsky reversed his earlier position. He concluded that babies...
...such historic themes as World War II (A Bell for Adano), the Holocaust (The Wall) and the atom bomb (Hiroshima), has chosen the dialogue form for what seems a lighter topic: the pursuit of bluefish off Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts. But as the book's insatiably curious Stranger talks informally with the knowledgeable Fisherman, a cascade of lore and documents, poetry and tragedy is netted along with the glistening quarry...
...least in terms of well-honed views and organization, is Babbitt. Like Hart, Babbitt has a position -- and a policy paper to prove it -- on everything. Desperate to score in Iowa, Babbitt in late April became the first to run television ads there. Because he is still a stranger in Washington, Babbitt has fared poorly in the underground primary...