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Victorian attitudes to children were famously forbidding. That might partly explain why London's Museum of Childhood is little heard of by most visitors to the capital. Then there's the building itself-a red-brick and iron shed, an unloved remnant of the Victoria and Albert Museum in Kensington that in 1872 was rebuilt in Bethnal Green as a cultural outpost for the museum's overspill, particularly its collection of dolls and children's costumes...
...Some of the gloom and an aura of worthiness persisted even after its rebirth as the Museum of Childhood in 1974. But a visit there became a quiet family pleasure-a treasure chest for kids of toys, games and cool stuff from around the world and across the centuries, and for parents, an invitation to bathe in nostalgia...
...Brigitewear thong swimsuit, “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan”: Kidding! 5. Olive Hoover’s brontosaurus t-shirt and matching red cowboy boots, “Little Miss Sunshine”: The perfect combination of childhood innocence and sex appeal, for the superfreak in me, but really, for the superfreak in all of you. —Lindsay A. Maizel ’09 is the incoming Movies editor. She is, in fact, a superfreak...
...hand. “I never thought I’d end up at Harvard. I never even went to high school,” said McCourt, beginning a speech that kept the audience laughing. Drawing on material from his memoir, he reflected on his Irish education and childhood as compared with those of his New Yorker students. “We had the victim-type education,” McCourt said of the Irish, which “conditioned” them to believe they were a “fighting race” of Catholics...
...line: Do you like gold? ’Cause I’m an alchemist. Best or worst lie you’ve ever told: I’m an alchemist. Something you’ve always wanted to tell someone: I’m really an alchemist. Favorite childhood toy: Gold spray paint. Best part about Harvard: That heater/vent thing just inside the gate by the Science Center. Worst part about Harvard: Lack of an alchemy concentration. How you got your name: I was named after the doctor who delivered me. Describe yourself in three words: Weak, thirsty, onomatopoeic...