Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...small fee) to the Italian military intelligence. "I was certainly not qualified," he writes modestly, "to select the material, all of which seemed to me absolutely incomprehensible." But by choosing a few dispatches at random each day, he proved a great help to Italian strategy. "It was," he declared, "child's play...
...desperate anxiety to remain at her mother's bedside, was again due to take the stage (in a matinee Aïda). She never got near the Met. Mrs. Teobaldo Tebaldi died that morning. The singer, beside herself with grief, was put under heavy sedation. The only child of long-estranged Italian parents, Spinster Tebaldi, 35, recently described her attachment to Giuseppina Tebaldi, 68, her constant companion, cook, dressing-room maid and angel in the wings: "My mother never leaves me; she is always with me. To my mother, I am still her little girl...
Pete Seeger's latest record is an excellent one in its own way, but it is sailing under rather false colors, for it is essentially a children's record. While it would make a very good introduction to folk singing for a small child, the material is too hackneyed for his elders. Even the most ardent of Seeger's admirers will find trouble in giving undivided attention to Home on the Range and Yankee Doodle...
...inflation, these rents may not seem astronomical; but the average student in GSAS, for example, has an extremely limited income. The frequent "no children" restriction adds to the graduate student's dilemma. Landlords are not entirely to blame here; an over-whelming percentage of them ask if the child is of school age. If he is not, they assert, complaints are received from other tenants on the grounds that they are prevented from studying...
...poetic mixture of sight, sound, taste, smell, and touch that makes up a child's world is most beautiful in scenes of Rufus alone written outside the general text: "... (the curtains in the room) ... were touched by the carbon light of the street lamp, they were as white as sugar. The extravagant foliage which had been wrought into them by machinery showed even more sharply white where the light touched, and elsewhere was black in the limp cloth." These scenes were meant to be inserted in the story's sequence a la Faulkner, but Agee died before...