Word: babyhood
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...teething records of conventional baby books, the volume was designed originally by an obstetrician, has now been revised by eleven medical specialists, includes the memorabilia that mothers love plus space for data that should help the pediatrician and have lasting value to doctors who treat the subject long beyond babyhood...
...found in Anna Karenina, Tolstoy's novel, and is related to year 1875." Whenever Pnin stops talking, Novelist Nabokov steps in with waspish, high-spirited asides on U.S. higher education, culture vultures and modern art ("Dali is really Norman Rockwell's twin brother kidnaped by gypsies in babyhood"). For the rest, Pnin's centripetal personality holds this novel together, and his centrifugal English keeps the laughs flying...
...desegregation, and the Washington suburb of Arlington, for one, announced that it would integrate. Urged on by the hard core of his political following, Harry Byrd decreed against Virginia's white children being thus mixed in school (although many of them play unaffectedly with Negro youngsters from babyhood). At Byrd's bidding, Governor Stanley called a special legislative session and presented it with 23 bills, setting up a "defense in depth" against desegregation. As passed by the legislature, the program ensured a decade-long guerrilla war against the Supreme Court: if one law were found unconstitutional, another would...
This entire story is presented to us in the first person; Felix himself tells us in a supercillious tone that he finally achieved the fantasies of his babyhood. By the honesty of his confessions the reader is constantly aware that his actions do not deserve their rewards. But one recognizes that Mann is not criticizing Felix Krull. Rather he is criticizing or perhaps laughing at the institution which allows Krull to survive. In every one of his triumphs the polite society of Europe suffers...
...helicopter is in its babyhood," said Igor Sikorsky last week. "It's not much beyond the airplane in the Kitty Hawk days." But even Sikorsky, who is the father of all U.S. helicopters, is amazed at how fast his baby is growing. Last week the Sikorsky Aircraft Division of United Aircraft Corp. announced it will increase its factory floor space by one-third to 500,000 sq. ft. The Civil Aeronautics Administration approved' Sikorsky's new, fast (111 m.p.h.), four-place YH-18; the armed services jammed his production lines with orders for the older and bigger...