Manifold Pressure

Famous quotes containing the words manifold and/or pressure:

    Odysseus saw the sirens; they were charming,
    Blonde, with snub breasts and little neat posteriors,
    —John Streeter Manifold (b. 1915)

    Today’s pressures on middle-class children to grow up fast begin in early childhood. Chief among them is the pressure for early intellectual attainment, deriving from a changed perception of precocity. Several decades ago precocity was looked upon with great suspicion. The child prodigy, it was thought, turned out to be a neurotic adult; thus the phrase “early ripe, early rot!”
    David Elkind (20th century)