God sent children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race--to enlarge our hears; and to make us unselfish and full of ...kindly sympathies and affections; to give our souls higher aims; to call out all our faculties to extended enterprise and exertion; and to bring round our firesides bright faces, happy smiles, and loving, tender hearts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national... debt.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Children who grow up in stimulating, emotionally supportive, highly verbal, and protective environments where the caretaker teache...s and models skill development are usually ready for school. When the child is able to meet expectations, he or she receives praise or a positive feedback in school. This also compliments the caretaker--a child-rearing job well done. The caretaker or parent and school people feel good about each other. The child receives a message from parents that the school program is good. The positive emotional bond between parents and child is extended to the school. The school staff can then serve as parent surrogates. This facilitates learning.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Extended families have never been the norm in America; the highest figure for extended-family households ever recorded in American... history is 20 percent. Contrary to the popular myth that industrialization destroyed "traditional" extended families, this high point occurred between 1850 and 1885, during the most intensive period of early industrialization. Many of these extended families, and most "producing" families of the time, depended on the labor of children; they were held together by dire necessity and sometimes by brute force.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are born into them, marry into them, even create them among the people we love. They come large and extended...or small and nuc...lear. But whatever their size or wherever they live, strong families give us the nurturance and strength we need in order to survive.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The poet had a less sensitive grasp of language than the novelist and a less profound feeling for symbolism, so that his verse nar...ratives are not as poetic as James's greater prose fictions. Nevertheless the two writers exhibit interesting resemblances. Both rely on a gift for creating atmosphere. Both tend to shove the murders and adulteries offstage, and make the action the subject of extended discussion among the characters. Both are preoccupied with the theme, exemplified in the lives of so many New Englanders and at some period in their own, that worldly failure may issue in spiritual triumph.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Television was far more pervasive and radicalizing than printing had been. It was massive. When Riesman and others spoke of books,... magazines, and radio as mass media, they could not imagine the size and shape of television. There never had been a medium that could reach everybody, and reach them with images of behavior as behavior without the rationalization of words. The audience for its programs was drawn from every social class and every social element. By the mere act of watching television, a heterogeneous society could engage in a purely homogeneous activity. Television images are more rapid and transient than the printed word. They make no demand on us to remember or reflect on them. This impermanence and the time of consumption cause us to spend extended hours with the medium but significantly less time with any one image or sequence of images. Television is instantaneous and simultaneous: Everyone gets the message at the same time and, at the same time that an event is happening. There is no lag time between a reporter witnessing an event and reporting it, and no time for reflection and analysis.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anythin...g to say to each other for more than ten minutes at a stretch. The barriers are ancient--perhaps rooted, as some paleontologist may soon discover, in the contrast between the occasional guttural utterances exchanged in male hunting bands and the extended discussions characteristic of female food-gathering groups.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In my beginning is my end. In succession Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended,... Are removed, destroyed, restored, or in their place Is an open field, or a factory, or a by-pass.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »