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3. Children tend to draw a human figure as a circular head with arms and legs jutting out of it; to psychologists, this figure is known as a ____________.
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—Isabel Fattal
Answers: 70 / transparency / tadpole
Look Back
On this day in 1953, former U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his Marshall Plan, which helped rebuild Europe after World War II. In our August 1964 issue, former President Dwight D. Eisenhower remembered Marshall with this tribute:
He was one of the three or four men whom, in positions of great responsibility, I have rated—in my own mind—as the most distinguished in character, ability, and leadership … I found myself wishing that he could have understood how much he had meant to America, how much his fellow citizens appreciated the vision that impelled him in the late thirties and early forties to labor so hard to prepare the nation for the probability of its entry into the war and against pacifistic tendencies that almost defeated the draft law.
I thought of his moral courage, calmness, and wisdom after the war began in directing the mobilization and worldwide deployment of great armies and air forces; of the readiness and selflessness he displayed in forsaking all his own cherished plans as he undertook new and onerous duties in the afternoon of his life. These and a myriad of other things, I prayed that he might fully understand. But his modesty would have rejected any effort of others to tell him.
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Reader Response
Cindy Lamothe wrote about how some children who have to take care of their parents or younger siblings become compulsive caretakers when they grow up. This reader is surprised by the finding:
I did way too much caretaking of my younger sister because my narcissistic mother was off doing her own thing. I always knew I didn’t want to have kids, and partly it’s because I feel like I did that already.
Another reader had the opposite experience:
Being a good father was one of the most healing things in my life. The greatest fear, at least for me, was that I would be like [my parents]. Seeing myself be a good parent was the end realization of myself as a whole person. Not anything like them.
More readers recall how family history influenced their decisions about parenthood here.
Adjectives
Humongous fungus, real monster, controversial squash, decorative gourd.
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