Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...diplomat and was disappointed when he was sent to a post in Europe. He wrote her long, graceful letters dealing mostly with the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen, at a time when she was reading Steinbeck and Faulkner. Asked Michiko crossly: "Does he think I am still a child...
MANAGE as best you can, said Nature, and pushed me into existence. Thus the mild genius of 18th century French painting, Jean Honoré Fragonard, described his own beginnings. A child of Provence, Fragonard was raised in the soft sunshine, on vine-covered hills, with the Mediterranean and the mountains as his horizon. He studied under Boucher, came to fame in Paris, was a friend of Madame du Barry and American Ambassador Benjamin Franklin. Almost nothing more is known of Fragonard's life. With typical breeziness, he signed himself "Frago." and painted himself just thrice. One self-portrait...
Born. To Nina ("Honey Bear") Warren Brien, 25, the Chief Justice's youngest daughter, who recovered from a severe polio attack eight years ago, and Stuart Brien, M.D., 36, Beverly Hills obstetrician and gynecologist: their second child, first daughter, Earl Warren's eighth grandchild; in Hollywood. Name: Heather. Weight...
...explanation for this attitude can be found primarily in the commonness of European travel, which is often a narrowing experience at college age. It is narrowing because it breaks down the feelings of wonder and strangeness with which a child responds to something new, substituting mere indifference. Furthermore, in destroying the attractive image of Europeans formed in childhood it replaces them with the easy stereotypes to which the tourist is most often exposed. The triumph of "really getting to know the people," prime goal of the sincere and energetic travellers, usually consists of conversations in museums, evenings in the beercellars...
...story of a child who witnesses a crime and cannot make the adult world understand has been written before, but rarely so well. Devil by the Sea is the season's most chilling tale, and British Novelist Bawden tells it with the devil's own gift of gab and style. She can charm as well as chill. The innocent childhood scenes she sets down, in contrast to the mounting horror in the background, are as engaging as any of the beach idyls sketched by Lewis Carroll...