This Way Up | In praise of the power of love

0 Comments | Philadelphia Inquirer, The, March, 2006 | by Art Carey

When T. Berry Brazelton was a student at Princeton University, he was a member of Triangle Club, the musical theater troupe. Since Princeton was all-male in those days, female parts were played by men in drag.

Brazelton had a knack for it. And when the Triangle lads would go on tour, young lovelies would gaze longingly at Brazelton and ask, "Oh Berry, how do you do women so well?"

"Why, that's easy," Brazelton would say, with his charming Texas drawl, "I just watch and study you."

It may have been a pickup line, but it set the pattern for Brazelton's remarkable career. The man who has been called "the most celebrated and influential baby doctor since Benjamin Spock" has many talents, but foremost among them is his ability to observe.

Through keen and...