Word: childhoods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Psychiatrist William C. Menninger gave this prescription for a graceful old age: begin preparing for it in childhood. The ability to adjust happily to other people is established in youngsters, often for the rest of their lives...
...your editorial on April 15, you questioned the sincerity of those interested in having a theatre at Harvard because so few of us attended Mr. Burrell's lecture. I am only one of many here at Harvard who from early childhood have passionately loved the theater in all its forms; who believe, moreover, in the urgency of our need for a theater here; and who did not attend the lecture...
Prince Henry of Hesse, 26, grandson of the late King Victor Emmanuel of Italy, speaks with the elegant inflection of European royalty in 31 nostalgically surrealist paintings on exhibit in the Carstairs Gallery. His theme: memories of his own fairy-tale childhood spent among crowned and sceptered relatives in castles, palaces and splendiferous watering places (he is also a great-grandnephew of the late Kaiser Wilhelm, a cousin of Britain's Queen Elizabeth...
...Justice. During that year, Hines seemed to be everywhere at once, even stepped back to his native Kentucky to marry his childhood sweetheart, Nancy. But with Grant and Sherman battering the rebels in the field. Hines's cause was lost. At war's end he sent for his wife, began to study law in Canada while he waited until it was safe to go home. Later, in Bowling Green, he hung out his shingle and did so well that in 1875 he became chief justice of Kentucky's Court of Appeals. Hines died in 1898, Author Horan...
...time Tom's memories have been fully exposed, everything from his childhood recollection of horses' hooves on cobbled streets to his father's class reunion at Princeton has been examined for possible significance. When Tom returns to New York for good, he no longer disdains his roots-but he is no longer enmeshed by them, either...