Word: childhoods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Medical men have learned a good deal about measles, king of childhood diseases. Because it is very contagious, measles gets around most easily and fastest in cities. The nation's biggest city, New York, had its biggest measles year in 1938 (also the worst ever recorded for the U. S. as a whole). Last week, when 4,252 new cases were reported, it looked as though 1941 would be another big year for New York, with 20,000 cases since Jan. 1. The big measles season: January to April...
Davey's hero is Philip Bentham, an upper-class young man whose life he records from childhood through marriage. The book repeats the inevitable pattern of all such novels: parentage, early memories, school, pangs of puberty, the awakening of the mind. This part of Davey's book has been done much better, and too often, before. Bentham marries at 21, and the book then becomes an original account of a young, sexually violent, emotionally tortured marriage, and of its breakup. The principals are sensitive, intelligent and real, and Davey handles them the same...
...Manhattan last week nearly 1,000 members and guests of the American Orthopsychiatric Association gathered to discuss the grim problems of childhood. "Orthopsychiatry," the scientific study of abnormal behavior, concentrates largely on children. Since it is impossible to explain such polysyllabic notions as therapy or its need to moppets, and since they themselves have difficulty communicating with grownups, the orthopsychiatrist must be wily, has to resort to ruses and symbols, not only to communicate with children but to gain their confidence...
...comic books account for only about1% of the total), and 2) whether thrill-sophisticated comicbook readers could be convinced that "Truth is stranger and a thousand times more interesting than fiction!" But at least, True Comics had given parents a weapon with which to fight the racketeers of childhood...
...came to know Mohandas K. Gandhi. But when post-War restlessness brought the Rowlatt Bills and Gandhi's first defiance in India, Nehru was in at the birth. He was profoundly excited by that first great wave of nonviolence, came as near religion as he had since early childhood (not very near), and was no less profoundly baffled when, almost at the crest, Gandhi called off the show...