Other popular pieces that ran inside the pages of The Atlantic in 1961-62:
*The Captivity of Marriage
“Wives are lonelier now than they ever used to be. In older, gentler times, when age still had its privileges, the old folks never harbored any guilt feelings about being a drag on the young.”
*Are Americans Well Adjusted?
“As its title indicates, Americans View Their Mental Health is concerned with self-diagnosis, with people’s own estimates of their well-being and their troubles. Such estimates are apt to be colored by defenses and failures of insight, but the authors are right in emphasizing their relevance to the study of mental health, since it is subjective evaluations which decide what the ordinary person does about his emotional difficulties”
*The Century of the Child
“This realization has placed new and complex responsibilities on parents, teachers, and community services. Many parents are now well aware how much their presence or absence, their words, their actions, indeed, their whole emotional state affect their children. This is an important gain.”
*Why People Smoke
“Girls do not lag far behind boys in early adoption of smoking, but the boys appear to be consistently heavier smokers. Adolescent smoking is by no means a recent phenomenon, yet the last decade has seen a highly accelerated shift to an earlier age for beginning smoking, and young teen-agers characteristically smoke cigarettes only.”
*And of course Kenneth Cosgrove on the craft of tapping a mapple trees in Vermont!
