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Giggle at First Sight. Young Christian, born to Albert and Adele Herter in Paris, grew to be a strikingly tall, alarmingly thin lad who had to wear hip-high steel leg braces for six years to correct a curvature of the spine-forerunner of the osteoarthritis that was to afflict him in later years. ("I had no trouble with it for 40 years. Then it came back. Retribution, I guess.") He became a passable golfer, tennis and baseball player during his Harvard years (he is still an avid Boston Red Sox fan), but despite these normalities, many of his Harvard...
...Malady of Silliness. What is vanishing in Japan is the good old days when women lived by the precepts of the 17th century Onna-Daigaku (Great Learning for Women). A sample: "The five worst maladies that afflict the female mind are indocility, discontent, slander, jealousy and silliness. The worst of them all, the parent of the other four, is silliness." The duty of a wife was simply to produce children-sons, not daughters. For 250 years under the Tokugawa Shoguns, Japan's population was kept stable largely by female infanticide.* Of the girls permitted to live, those who became...
...Chronic sinusitis and respiratory infections afflict many refugee children in the dry climate of Jordan...
...their troubles with the Old Age and Survivors Insurance system, the Amish are victims of the irreversible bloat that seems to afflict social-welfare plans. From modest beginnings in 1937, when it applied only to regular employees and nicked only 1% from their paychecks, OASI has expanded in both coverage and bite. Once Congress extended the system to farmers four years ago, it was plainly necessary for the Federal Government to make the Amish pay up: laws must apply to all alike. But the plight of the Amish was a footnote reminder that the welfare state has its victims...
...from the first C in the bass to high C). She has the unusual gift of moving from one register to another with no perceptible shift in the quality of her singing, which is almost always unerringly accurate and clear, rarely marred by the edginess or brassy reverberations that afflict some singers. Her special glory is the spun-out, floating high note-which Tebaldi achieves, seemingly without effort, by paying out huge breaths in small, even quantities...