Word: childhoods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Contemporary reminiscences of childhood, appearing in more autobiographical novels than most readers would care to study, usually present a grim picture of the years of innocence, attach dubious value to fabled and Freudian childish joys. Last week a quaint book written in the mood of a less self-conscious age gave a lively account of a happy girlhood in one of the most repressed and inhibited environments in the U. S-the household of a Cambridge clergyman in the 1870's. Eleanor Abbott's grandfather was the prolific author of the Rollo books. Her father was first...
Peter is now a second year student in Armstrong College, Durham University, and will return there directly. He is concentrating in pure science, and now plans to take a few post-graduate courses in the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences when he gets his degree. From early childhood, he has been mechanically minded, and hopes to devote his life to research in physics and chemistry...
...anxiety . . . that worry injures us." Brooding, it follows, is "meditation made sick by fear." Confronted by situations that we do not know how to face, or do not want to face, our concepts of the kind of action possible for us are limited by patterns of thought formed in childhood by fears of consequence or opinion, by a morbid love for our own unhappiness, by distorted evaluations of the situation based on ingrown prejudice rather than fact. We thereupon begin to worry and "the moment a man begins to worry he imperils his mind." The symptoms are plain. "There...
...girl who turns out to be equipped with testes, that the physician deems it best for psychological reasons that she continue life as a female despite her male glands. A case history reported by Dr. Emil Novak, Johns Hopkins gynecologist: A college girl of 19, considered normal in childhood, had grown tall (6 ft. i in.), angular, flat-chested, hairy, deep-voiced. Examination revealed no womb, a rudimentary vagina, an overdeveloped clitoris, male gonads. Dr. Novak saw at once that it was impossible to adapt the clitoris for male activity. Moreover, the patient had a strong, deep-rooted feminine psychology...
Dame Laura's book shows off her direct, robust sincerity. A product of her childhood, she tells a story of much violence, dismisses in a sentence a circus fire in which "a sailor and nine Boy Scouts were burned alive." Her paintings have the quality her childhood instructors tried in vain to cure her of-a heavy hand. Her drawing is strong. The point of her pictures is always heartily obvious. Now at 59, she is a highly respectable figure in the British art world with her personal trademarks of a sombrero and velvet jacket, her hair...