Word: childhoods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tourists more rewarding for Israel. General Yigael Yadin, archaeologist and war hero who advises the government on historical matters, spelled it out for reporters. "Put yourself in the shoes of a person who was weaned on Bible stories. He dreams of visiting the places he has heard about since childhood. When he gets to Israel . . . nobody seems to know where they are . . . There are few people who would not want to be photographed against a signpost showing where David killed Goliath...
...outwardly dashing and handsome Eugene is a perverse, embittered prodigal who soon pollutes the lakeside idyl. Affronted to find that Natalia has stepped unscarred from the ruins of their childhood, Eugene exacts subtle penance from his sister. Capriciously, he urges her to become the mistress of a Roman grandee. Then, he virtually thrusts Natalia into the arms of malevolent Count Kovanski. In a savage bedroom scene, Kovanski and Natalia both recognize Eugene as a pitiful parasite. Later that night the prodigal brother himself stumbles into Natalia's arms for a final, incestuous reckoning...
...rhythms of African drums, which later took on a more succinct and sensuous character as they drifted through the Caribbean islands, gradually infiltrated the U.S. via New Orleans and the East Coast. The East Coast variety, with its own flavors added, eventually became the ragtime of Duke's childhood...
...children of Benito Mussolini, ruled that their health is too delicate for them to earn a living and awarded them pensions for life. Tubercular Jazz Pianist Romano Mussolini, 28 (TIME, Jan. 30), will get $112 a month; his sister Anna Maria, 27, partially crippled from a polio attack in childhood. $192 a month. The pair will not burden Italy's grandly evasive taxpayers; the support funds will come from their father's confiscated estate...
Nehru's English patina, however, was deceptive. "Behind me," he wrote years after his return from Britain, "lie somewhere the subconscious racial memories of a hundred generations of Brahmans." Behind him, too, were conscious memories of hearing since childhood of the "overbearing character and insulting manner of English people . . . toward Indians." Those memories made him a champion of the underdog and filled him with his own intense brand of racial prejudice. "I try to be impartial and objective," he noted in his autobiography, "but the Asiatic in me influences my judgment whenever an Asiatic people are concerned...