Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Every day in every way the cost of "going away to college" is leap-frogging. This year, for example, Harvard's tuition shot up 25 per cent, and room rents go up 15 per cent next term. Many families--especially those with more than one child away at school--are running close to the financial margin, and commuting is a decidedly less expensive way to attend college...
...compensation, Stevens concentrates upon Anne's metamorphosis from child to woman, on her love affair with Peter, a young boy confined with the Franks in the garret. While certainly present in the actual diary, these elements were in relatively small proportion...
Judith A. Curtis '61, has received the $100 first prize in the English Department's annual Sophomore Essay contest. Her topic was "The Undermining of Pathos in Henry James' Treatment of the Child...
...plan to search for a gold-carrying plane that has crashed, all agree to stick together. Ridiculously ill-equipped, they begin a journey whose terrors bring out the best and worst in them all. Starving, sick, half-crazed, they stumble along after the German, take turns carrying the child and the box of crucifixes that the priest intends for native Indians. The ceaseless procession of horrors is almost too much-but not quite. Author Lacour tips his pen with a searching probe of each character's deepest self. The priest, in his own eyes not a very good...
Ironically, they find the gold, but by then any one of them would have traded his share for a tin of beans. First to die is the child; then, in some of the most dreadful descriptions in recent fiction, the others go. Only the former commander of the soldiers is left, and he is reduced to cannibalism. With all its obvious symbolism, its irony, its implicit plea for man's humanity to man, Death in That Garden will best be remembered as a tale of adventure brought off with literary flair and an almost savage imagination...