Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week twice-married Grandfather Ylppo (his youngest child is only two) turned 70. To honor him, colleagues had established the Ylppo Award, to be given every five years to pediatricians for special achievements. Ylppo himself was a tiny, inconspicuous figure among the frock-coated dignitaries in the great hall of Helsinki University as the Ylppo gold medal was bestowed on Harvard's Professor Clement Smith, outstanding researcher into the breathing mechanism of the newborn (he advises against spanking them). Said Disciple Smith: "It is often stated that Arvo Ylppo invented the premature baby. I doubt this...
...youngsters to their environment with no particular concern or activity on their part. For example, grades were eliminated so that the young person might not suffer the frustration of feeling inferior to others . . . This enormous sensitivity and tenderness for the sense of security and adaptation of the child is a frightful travesty upon Dewey's thinking. His was a rigorous mind...
...atmosphere and a sardonic inflection, Waltz of the Toreadors could mate humor with horror, lace wormwood with Vichy. Square Root jangles with false notes. Where, again, Williams could make a dynamic-if uncentered-story of Cat, could drive abreast the three themes of a blighted marriage, a parent-and-child relationship and a girl's family-in-law, Square Root cannot drive them tandem...
Elias Murambodoro's father was frightened. What kind of son, he wondered, had he put into the world? The boy had begun to talk unusually early, and the father finally concluded that voodoo must be to blame. Throwing mother and child out of his hut, he disappeared into the bush...
Mother and child are currently traveling up and down Northern and Southern Rhodesia holding healing services. Last week, before mud huts and in forest clearings, Elias opened his services to open-mouthed Africans: "Do not mock that a child should dare to speak to his elders, because I bring you the words of God." Christian missionaries in Rhodesia plan to dissuade their converts from following little Elias, but they are waiting to see whether the boy is just a freak or whether he will really catch on. Meanwhile, Elias has expressed his earthly ambition. Said he: "I want to become...