The parent must not give in to his desire to try to create the child he would like to have, but rather help the child to develop--...in his own good time--to the fullest, into what he wishes to be and can be, in line with his natural endowment and as the consequence of his unique life in history.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
An actress reading a part for the first time tries many ways to say the same line before she settles into the one she believes sui...ts the character and situation best. There's an aspect of the rehearsing actress about the girl on the verge of her teens. Playfully, she is starting to try out ways to be a grown-up person.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O brilliant kids, frisk with your dog, Fondle your shells and sticks, bleached... By time and the elements; but there is a line You must not crossLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The middle years of parenthood are characterized by ambiguity. Our kids are no longer helpless, but neither are they independent. ...We are still active parents but we have more time now to concentrate on our personal needs. Our children's world has expanded. It is not enclosed within a kind of magic dotted line drawn by us. Although we are still the most important adults in their lives, we are no longer the only significant adults.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
An accurate charting of the American woman's progress through history might look more like a corkscrew tilted slightly to one side..., its loops inching closer to the line of freedom with the passage of time--but like a mathematical curve approaching infinity, never touching its goal. . . . Each time, the spiral turns her back just short of the finish line.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the p...rivate world public, that's what the poet does.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It may be the more That no line of her writing have I,... Nor a thread of her hair, No mark of her late time as dame in her dwelling, whereby I may picture her there.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Alicia Huberman: Look, I'll make it easy for you. The time has come when you must tell me that you have a wife and two adorable ch...ildren, and this madness between us can't go on any longer. T.R. Devlin: I bet you've heard that line often enough. Alicia: Right below the belt every time. Oh that isn't fair, Dev. Devlin: Skip it. We have other things to talk about. We have a job.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let us consider for a moment the following argument. The child plays in complete--we can well say, in sacred--earnest. But it play...s and knows that it plays. The sportsman, too, plays with all the fervour of a man enraptured, but he still knows that he is playing. The actor on the stage is wholly absorbed in his playing, but is all the time conscious of "the play." The same holds true of the violinist, though he may soar to realms beyond the world. The play-character, therefore may attach to the sublimest forms of action. Can we now extend the line to ritual and say that the priest performing the rites of sacrifice is only playing? At first sight it seems preposterous, for if you grant it for one religion you must grant it for all. Hence our ideas of ritual, magic, liturgy, sacrament, mystery would all fall within the play concept.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »