Word: childhoods
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Aldington goes to infinite pains, complete with family genealogies, to prove that T. E. Lawrence and his four brothers were the illegitimate sons of a baronet named Chapman. He goes deep into the family's private history to debunk tales of his hero's childhood precocity. Stirred to action by a former biographer's statement that Lawrence claimed to have read "all the books" in the Oxford Union Library, Aldington lists the total (50,000) to prove the task impossible. Even Lawrence's claim to have ridden camelback at the pace of 100 miles...
...Huntington, Long Island, in 1819, but was taken to Brooklyn at the age of three. His father was a good carpenter but a poor provider, who spouted Tom Paine to his eight children. Walt had a skimpy schooling, and the most dramatic event he later recalled from his childhood was the day Lafayette, on a triumphal visit to Brooklyn, picked him up and kissed him. By 15 Walt was working in a printing office and getting anonymous little pieces published in the old New York Mirror...
...exact data on the body's normal food intake (some people's systems require more and different foods than others). ¶ When should weight be brought under some kind of control? Dr. Ercel Eppright, Iowa State's top nutritionist, suggested that weight control should begin during childhood. Thanks to TV and the automobile, children are getting less exercise, spending playtime indoors gobbling high-calorie snacks and soda pop. ¶ Overweight is spreading more rapidly among white men and less rapidly among white women, reported the U.S. Public Health Service's Dr. James Hundley. Since...
...fellow with a bull neck, a great beak of a nose, and hooded, blue-green eyes. His stockbroker's black business suit sat strangely on him because he looked like a pirate chief and walked with the rolling sway of a seaman. He had spent part of his childhood in Peru (where his mother took him to visit relatives after his journalist father died). In his teens, Paul ran away to sea and put in six years before the mast. "Oh, I was a great rascal!" he would later say, "a remarkable liar." In the early years of marriage...
Leviticus Says No. He tells the story, wittily and well, by putting the problem of ethics on a kind of analyst's couch and dredging up its troubled case history. The childhood of ethics, in the Russell view, is taboo. Taboo morality is a strict black-and-white affair filled with dread and sanctions, the ethics of primitive...