Couldn't docility from totalitarian indoctrination be a human shortcoming?

As the couple cared for the deeply traumatised nine-year-old, their son, Ian, went to Brick Ponds, an expanse of semi-wild parkland and lakes on the site of an old claypit used for brickmaking.

Men and women busy in baking, broiling, roasting oysters, and preparing devils on the gridiron.

A quarter-day is one terminating a quarter of the year.