Word: alcotts
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...attempt to broaden my eight-year-old daughters' video interests beyond Disney princesses, I recently rented the 1994 rendition of Little Women. It was delightful to introduce my girls to the Louisa May Alcott classic and we were all enjoying the adventures, joys and tribulations of the March family when about halfway through the movie, selfless and compassionate Beth contracts scarlet fever. The illness almost kills her and leaves her heart permanently weakened. My daughters were perplexed and frightened. Could they get scarlet fever? Could their friends get scarlet fever...
...Louisa May Alcott's era, a diagnosis of scarlet fever could only be made by clinical deduction; the distinctive rash accompanied by fever, nausea, vomiting and a sore throat. In my office practice, I swab throats daily looking for the dreaded strep bacteria and "rapid strep tests" allow concrete diagnoses to be made in a matter of minutes. Although the National Institute of Health estimates that more than 10 million mild infections caused by strep are diagnosed each year, the serious consequence of untreated strep infections are extremely rare in the U.S. Treatment for strep consists of oral antibiotics...
Remember Mr. March, from Louisa May Alcott's Little Women? Probably not, since he spends most of the book offstage, preaching to Union troops in the Civil War. In March, which won the Pulitzer Prize, Brooks liberates him from obscurity and follows him as he wanders a country divided by racism and blasted by atrocity. March could easily have come off as a preachy pill, but Brooks plays him as a paradox--an intellectual buffeted by passion, a man of faith bedeviled by doubt. He is constantly confronted with moral dilemmas that he can only bluff his way through...
Wednesday, March 23. Harvard Book Store presents Elaine Showalter discussing Louisa May Alcott: Little Women, Little Men, Joe’s Boys. 6:30 p.m. Free. Harvard Book Store, 1256 Mass...
Though it's based on a beloved book for young people, Little Women: The Musical is the most adult new musical of the Broadway season and an unexpectedly satisfying meal. Skillfully adapted from Louisa May Alcott's novel by Allan Knee (author of The Man Who Was Peter Pan, on which the film Finding Neverland is based), it reintroduces us to the four March sisters, marooned in their Massachusetts home while their father is off to the Civil War. Directed by Susan H. Schulman (The Secret Garden), the show is pretty, unpretentious, warmhearted but surprisingly restrained: even the death...