Word: childhoods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London's Daily Herald last week appeared the story of Sid and Syd. Neighbors from childhood, the difference between them was the way they spelled their names. In school, in scrapes, in games, in the R.A.F., they were always together. Together they were in a big Berlin raid, Sid as a gunner, Syd as a bombardier. Together they came back, Sid in his turret, Syd in the nose. Both were dead. In flag-draped coffins, side by side, they were taken home together...
This is the revolutionary conclusion of criminologists Sheldon. Glueck and Eleanor T. Glueck of the Harvard Law School in a pioneering study of the cases of 500 male offenders from childhood until 15 years after their release from a reformatory...
...Wellington suffered from many things-fever and loneliness in India that turned his hair grey at 32, a botched marriage; disgrace and empty victory and the fanatical hatred of some of the keenest brains in the Empire. He suffered from the misuse and thwarting of his genius from his childhood to his old age, wounds and hazards in battle, casualty lists so long that, as the Surgeon General read them to him in his moods of frightful despair after fighting, Wellington's will ebbed and sickened. He suffered when supplies were withheld from him, his dispatches were betrayed...
...only psychiatrist to hold such a job. (Philadelphia's famed Dr. Edward Strecker thinks all Army medical services should be headed by psychiatrists.) Brigadier Chisholm called soldiers' mental breakdowns "a disability of the English-speaking peoples. . . . A whole generation has been taught not to fight. From earliest childhood a boy is trained not to run risks so as not to break his mother's heart. . . . The result is that in the Army there is an emotional attitude toward getting hurt." Brigadier Chisholm recommends drill as one safeguard against nervous breakdown because 1) it gives...
Elegant Form. It was Ole's life and character which inspired Ibsen with the lurid idea of Peer Gynt. Born in 1810, brought up by prosperous parents in the little provincial fishing town of Bergen, Ole Bornemann Bull flatly refused to obey his childhood violin teachers. At 23 he was playing quartets in many prominent European salons, carousing and dueling on the side. In Paris he met 14-year-old Félicie Alexandrine Villeminot, daughter of a French official. After four years he married her. Then he spent years trying to convince her that she should live permanently...