Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prima Donna: The word has, in the mouths of the more thinking members of the musical public, taken on a half-humorous, half-caustic meaning . . . (The child who in an examination paper misspelt the term Prim Madonna was very young...
...modern architecture in churches is just a fad, said Church Architect Benjamin F. Olsen of Chicago, president of the Illinois Society of Architects. "It reminds me of a naughty child, standing on his head to attract attention when company comes," he said. And, he asked, what will the modern ones look like in 25 years, after the "newness has worn...
...have initiated new TV techniques, such as shadow play with mimes to suggest an event of the past, and the ballet to give a concrete illustration of an abstract scientific principle, e.g., the "hereditary ballet," in which the dancers are identifiable as specific genes, to show how a child inherits various characteristics from his parents...
...membership in the Order of Merit, an honor limited to 24 living persons; of a coronary thrombosis; in Twickenham, England. A delicate, meticulous stylist, shy, ruddy-faced De la Mare was best loved for his children's tales and verses-some as chilling and profound as a child's daydream, others as sensitive and whimsical as the man himself. (Said Poet W.H. Auden: "A child brought up on such verses may break his mother's heart or die on the gallows but he will never suffer from a tin ear.") To his eleven grandchildren, modest Poet...
...there any meaning in life that can overcome inevitable death?" As he tries to cope with these questions, the Outsider's horizon clouds over with the problem of evil. Dostoevsky, in The Brothers Karamazov, reduced it to its classic essence, the tortured cry of a single innocent child. If the order of the universe depends on that cry, argues Ivan with his brother Alyosha, "I don't accept God's world," and "I most respectfully return him the entrance ticket." Neither Dostoevsky nor other Outsiders, according to Wilson, are rebels without a cause; they want desperately...