Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lovers: "The Russians love dogs. This has been done not for the sake of cruelty but for the benefit of humanity." Britain's public was not to be soothed. Demanded Lady Munnings, wife of the Royal Academy's onetime President Sir Alfred Munnings: "Why not use child murderers, who just get life sentences and have a jolly good time in prison?"* Novelist Denise Robins rushed into print with a touching elegy: "Little dog lost to the rest of the world," it began. "Up in your satellite basket curled . . ." The distressed schoolchildren of Doncaster offered their special prayers...
...Interviewed in Cambridge, England, where he now "works for a friend" on nonsecret scientific matters, one former prisoner-though no child murderer-expressed eagerness to follow Lady Munning's suggestion. "I would gladly have gone up in the Sputnik," said Dr. Alan Nunn May, the West's first convicted atom spy. "I would have done it for science...
Corporate Salvation. The pietistic, motto-wielding Christianity of his day was inadequate to the inhumanity he saw around him in a world of slums, child labor and union-busting. It is all very well, he wrote, for a man "to lean back on the Eternal and to draw from the silent reservoirs. But what we get there is for use. Personal sanctification must serve the Kingdom...
...success of this play depends largely on the abilities of the actress who plays the medium, since she must be able to speak with the voices of three women, a child, and a man. Lillian Aylward is in every way equal to her assignment, and achieves the necessary effects by altering her speech rhythms. The six supporting players, particularly Michael Linenthal as a pompous doctor and Liam Clancy as a skeptical Oxford student, also turn in fine performances...
...triumphs of the show belongs to Charles Saari, the only excellent child actor since Brandon De Wilde. Despite rare roughness and lapses out of context, his intense performance of Sonny is outstanding. He pouts, squawks, broods, lunges, and captures the audience. Timmy Everett, playing the well-written role of the older young man who kills himself between the acts, is equally excellent...