Word: childhoods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even a shattering noise rarely causes complete deafness. The commonest causes of deafness (besides old age) are 1) inflammation of the middle ear (otitis media), usually due to a head cold; and 2) a bony growth in the middle ear (otosclerosis), a hereditary disorder that usually attacks in childhood...
Embryonic psychos will view "The Feeling of Rejection," a movie dealing with the psychiatric problems of childhood, at 8:15 o'clock tonight in Emerson...
Paris admires a tiny, intense chanteuse named Edith Piaf. An itinerant acrobat's daughter with a patched-skirt childhood, she specializes in songs about love-battered girls. Last week, as the star of a continental variety show, Mlle. Piaf began singing (mostly in French) her drab ballads on Broadway. She flung them out resonantly, acted them out skillfully and sometimes appealingly. But she was not half as much fun as nine very gay young Frenchmen on the program, billed as Les Compagnons de la Chanson, who sing a song well and spoof a song wonderfully...
English I reading lists now include some of the hill country ballads and Negro folk songs 'Suve" learned during a. South Carolina childhood. Her speech still has traces of Dixie...
Unhappy Children. Like most psychiatrists, Dr. Dunbar looks for the roots of psychosomatic illness in an unhappy childhood: "There is such a thing as emotional contagion. The youngest infant can be infected with fear or anger or disgust or horror even more easily than with the measles." Infected with such fears, he grows up unusually susceptible to disease and accidents (forms of escape or self-punishment...