Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Said Italy's Cinemactress Gina Lollobrigida, 28, wife of Dr. Mirko Skofic, a physician out of practice: "I must confirm that I am expecting a child-probably in July...
Youth in Step. Schnitzler, like Freud, was born soon after mid-century in Franz Josef's Austro-Hungarian Empire. Each was his mother's eldest child; each was soon handed over to nursemaids because mother was pregnant again; each was soon bereaved by the death of his next-born brother (Schnitzler at 14 months, Freud at 19). The Schnitzler family was the better off; Freud's father was an unsuccessful wool merchant, while Schnitzler's was a fashionable ear, nose and throat specialist, who basked in limelight reflected from theatrical patients. Both young men became physicians...
...three shots of Salk vaccine (TIME, Dec. 24). More detailed studies of the boy's tissues now show that he died of acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, a rare disease of the brain and spinal cord, easily confused with polio. There remains only one 1956 case of a child's death attributed to polio despite triple vaccination, and this is no longer provable...
What Author Descola calls "the prodigious curve of this incomparable destiny" begins with a child abandoned on the steps of a church in Spain. It passes through the forming of his expedition in Panama, his defeat of the Incas and his majesty as a marquis, ruler of "the empire of the sun." It moves, finally, to his death, like a Shakespearean tragic hero's on the swords of conspirators. Bloody feuds had broken out, and Pizarro's murderers saw themselves as avengers. Descola describes the scene: "This old man of nearly seventy handled his sword like a youngster...
...youngsters to whom the pre-halitosis world must seem as remote as that of Chaucer's Wife of Bath. Soon, only toothless oldsters will remain to tell of a time when every bridesmaid took her breath in her stride and no man, wanting the truth, went to a child...