Word: childhoods
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Milton lived through a repressed childhood, rebelling vainly under a luxuriance of shoulder-length curls, which his mother finally cut during his fifth year. The older brothers were impressed, in rotating succession, as Milton's nursemaids, a boring duty that Dwight relieved by rocking Milton's cradle with one foot while absorbed in a book. Earl, 19 months older than Milton, was held out of school for a year so that little Milton could enjoy his protective custody...
...famed predecessor. Sir Edward Coke, he made no great contribution to English law, but his blunt style and sharp knowledge of the law made him one of the most feared and respected men in England. The son of a London solicitor who had heard law around the house since childhood, Goddard, after Oxford, once stood for Parliament as the "Purity Candidate" against a man who had been divorced. His defeat was so disastrous that he never dabbled in politics again. In 1923 he "took silk," i.e., became a King's Counsel. The next 20 years brought him a succession...
...most dramatic contestant of all was Israel's own entry: Amos Hacham, 30, a partly paralyzed, barely articulate clerk in Jerusalem's Institute for the Blind, and the orphan son of a Bible scholar; a childhood accident had left Hacham with a dragging leg, a shriveled arm and a sagging mouth. All Israel was rooting for Amos as contest time drew near. Every seat in Jerusalem's Hebrew University amphitheatre (capacity: 2,340) was sold well in advance, 300 policemen handled the crowds, and all over the country radio sets were tuned in. With a blare...
...They were, and are, all mad." said Horace Walpole of the noble Gordon family. Perhaps the maddest of the lot was Lord George Gordon,* hero of this excellent study of a neglected piece of British history. He attained notoriety in childhood, dressed up as Cupid at a soiree, by shooting visiting King Stanislaus of Poland in the face with a silver arrow. Unfortunately, destiny cast George Gordon for the leading part in a far more horrendous 18th century shooting match...
...supply of ice for five days .. . running against the wind, strapped with white metal, like aging athletes." The implication is that America represents energy without order. Where is the eternal fountain of youth, Perse seems to be asking all along, the origin of life, the innocence and worider of childhood recaptured? At 71, St.-John Perse finds the answer in the inexhaustible symbol...