Word: childhoods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Minneapolis-born Author Brinig has published 14 novels in the past 15 years (including Singermann, The Sisters, May Flavin). His new novel sug gests that he may be suffering from over production. You and I's 474 pages follow New Mexico-born Claire and Eric from childhood to marriage, taking in half the cities of Europe...
...come out of the mass migrations of at least nine million Germans from East Prussia, Danzig, Silesia, Pomerania and the Sudetenland. It is a tale of horror, old men starving on the roads, young girls raped in boxcars, children who will never find their parents or remember anything of childhood except cold and hunger and the fear of more cold and hunger...
...soon after becoming New York State's Commissioner of Education, pragmatic Dr. Stoddard had something more to say about mental deterioration. "Feeble in mind," he wrote in a book called The Meaning of Intelligence, "are the persons whose intact brains, giving the highest promise up through childhood, . . . have been so systematically drugged with the vapors of dogma, superstition and pseudo logic. . . . Man-made concepts, such as devils, witches, taboos, hellfire, original sin . . . and divine revelation . . . have distorted the intellectual processes of millions of persons...
...Argentinita (real name: Encarnacion Lopez),* 47, whose brilliant footwork, miming and castanet playing earned her critical as well as public cheers; after two major operations, 17 blood transfusions; in Manhattan. Born in Buenos Aires but raised in Spain by her Castilian parents, she took her stage name from her childhood nickname, "the little Argentinian...
...represent to Author Hauser not only the "extremes of wealth and poverty" but also the extremes of decadence and the Spartan spirit. Readers of The German Talks Back, which is partly autobiographical, will catch on to the manner of man Author Hauser is when they recognize that ever since childhood he has arbitrarily split his worlds into "decadent" and "Spartan" halves...