Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other mother calling her daughter into the house for supper, the girl's reply would have seemed to be that of a spoiled and defiant child. But to Mrs. Genevieve Maclsaac of Boston, it was cause for rejoicing. Not since little Mary was ten months old and damaged her brain in a fall had she been able to say anything more than an unintelligible "Ahhh." Now, out of the blue, she had spoken her first words...
...poignant effort to raise money, its volunteer staff began a drive to collect old license plates that it hopes to sell for scrap. But somewhere, insists Mrs. Tunnicliff, the school will find the funds it needs-for the sake of the eleven-year-old with the body of a child of six, for the small boy who developed an emotional trauma from so many beatings at home that he can only say the word "pump," for the 30-year-old spastic who after 17 years of grueling work is at last able to carry on a conversation and to hold...
...Away from his music, he sometimes seemed like a child. He liked to watch children's programs or boxing on television, and he could shake with laughter watching an unsuspecting guest try to cut meat with a folding knife. The stories that clustered about him bore testimony to the fact that he was (in the words of a friend) at once naive and crafty, simple and complex, gracious and spiteful. When a rehearsal failed to meet his standards, he was capable of kicking over the music stand and storming offstage to rip scores from his studio bookshelves and upset...
...chance to see what the controversy was about, with the publication in Britain of Minou's First Poems, translated by Poet-Biographer Margaret Crosland (Hamish Hamilton, London). There is nothing in the 20 poems to suggest that they could not have been written by a very precocious child, and at the same time nothing to keep them from being judged as poetry rather than child's play. The verses are set in the serpentine typography that Minou believes necessary because "I reread better written like this." Typical was Tree that I Love...
drawn by a clumsy child...