Word: childhood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hunkering as practiced by the University of Arkansas students [Nov. 9] brought memories of childhood days in Yorkshire, England, just before the turn of the century. Hunkering was the usual posture of the miners employed in a nearby colliery when, on a summer evening, they gathered in a ring to talk local politics or discuss the merits of their respective whippets...
...biggest and the best of Hollywood's super-spectacles. The story of Ben-Hur is reasonably faithful to the general's stirring "Tale of the Christ." Prince Judah Ben-Hur (Charlton Heston), a rich Jew born about the same time as Christ, falls out with his childhood friend Messala (Stephen Boyd), commander of the Roman garrison in Jerusalem, who demands that Ben-Hur inform against other Jewish patriots. When Ben-Hur refuses, Messala condemns him to certain death as a galley slave and shuts up his mother (Martha Scott) and sister (Cathy O'Donnell) in a pestilential...
Erikson did research at the Harvard Medical School before joining the Austen Riggs Center, Stockbridge, in 1931. Still at the Center, he is currently working with the psychological problems of young people. He has been involved in the study of childhood most of his life...
...major works include Childhood and Society, Young Man Luther, and two monographs, "Studies in the Interpretation of Play" and "Problems of Ego Identify...
...stuck. He had produced one thinly disguised story about his roommate's sex life, two reminiscences of childhood in Dobbs Ferry, and the coffee cups poem. He hated the idea of writing a "potboiler," but he was three thousand words behind. Three times that weeks he had started another reminiscence of his Dobbs Ferry childhood, only to give up in disgust...