Word: childhoods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Years ago Mrs. Elizabeth Gray Vining, the American Quaker who tutored Akihito during his childhood, said to Dr. Koizumi: "She who marries the crown prince must be a girl of spirit who will not be a doormat; she must not be someone who will be easily overwhelmed." Michiko Shoda, standing straight and slim beside her devoted prince, seems precisely that girl...
...nearly every day, enjoyed dropping into the little village shops for rice balls and noodles-a passion that absorbed nearly all her monthly allowance of $2.78. The reddish tinge had vanished from her hair, but she seemed ashamed of its persistent and un-Japanese curliness, and confessed that her childhood nickname had been "Temple-chau," after Shirley Temple...
...commonness of European travel, which is often a narrowing experience at college age. It is narrowing because it breaks down the feelings of wonder and strangeness with which a child responds to something new, substituting mere indifference. Furthermore, in destroying the attractive image of Europeans formed in childhood it replaces them with the easy stereotypes to which the tourist is most often exposed. The triumph of "really getting to know the people," prime goal of the sincere and energetic travellers, usually consists of conversations in museums, evenings in the beercellars, and native dating. Intellectually, there is little contact; such...
...general feeling is one of close familiarity and affinity with Europe and its people. The danger of this impression of cosmopolitanism lies not merely in its inaccuracy, but in the convenient rationale it affords for an escape from one's own background. While the student sloughs off childhood attributes, he is tempted to discard many of the values developed at home in favor of the new ones he imagines to have found here. But Harvard, while it spurns the richness of a full American tradition, does not provide a satisfactory Continental substitute. To the undergraduate, Europe is a spectrum ranging...
...adult world understand has been written before, but rarely so well. Devil by the Sea is the season's most chilling tale, and British Novelist Bawden tells it with the devil's own gift of gab and style. She can charm as well as chill. The innocent childhood scenes she sets down, in contrast to the mounting horror in the background, are as engaging as any of the beach idyls sketched by Lewis Carroll...