Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ever to be seen on TV. Actor Carney was fine as a new character in the old fairy tale, but the wonder of the hour-long show was Bil and Cora Baird's 50 animal puppets, who achieved something rare-a fairy tale mixed with true gaiety, a child's world edged by real irony. That was the spirit, too, of Ogden Nash's lyrics, notably in the wolf's lament ("Aesop launched the slander/ I should have eaten Aesop") and his song of thanksgiving...
...World. Jane's case is not at all unique. When Lucy, now ten, was a toddler, she resentfully poured what she thought was some hot water over her new baby sister. It was hot paraffin, and the baby died. Lucy's horrified parents eventually drove the "wicked" child into Smiths-and the loving arms of Big Sister Agatha, who has since restored the stunned, mute child to hesitant speech and a chance for recovery. So close have many other children become to their Big Sisters that the hospital's new problem is how to "wean" them from...
...among tropic travelers (TIME, May 13, 1957). Even worse, the heads of the sticks are fitted with eyes that appear to be jequirity beans, are deadly poisonous. The Cincinnati testers fed one of the eyes to a rat, which promptly died. The U.S. PHS warned that if a small child eats one of the beans, serious and perhaps fatal illness may follow...
...Henry Moore, who struggled for months over the ESC (Education, Science, Culture) of UNESCO, finally decided: "If you put a statue of a teacher reading to a child there, after a while nobody would look at it." Instead, Moore fell back on Henry Moore, vintage 1938, turned out a reclining, Swiss-cheese female, carved out of rich travertine from Michelangelo's old quarry at Carrara (see color). For all its massive ten tons, it fails of monumentality, is less successful than the reinforced concrete canopy behind it that Breuer and Nervi designed as an afterthought...
...over an hour ago.' The idea is that the reader, also bewildered, will feel breathlessly eager to recover his wits and will call the anxiety suspense. Mind is explicitly excluded." Moreover, the new detective fiction is badly put together ("The prevailing impression is of writing by a gifted child with a poor education"). And the authors are so busy treating love affairs "sensitively," making character studies, examining race prejudice, family tensions and other neuroses, that they all but leave out the crime. One example of a book with too many extras: the bestselling Anatomy of a Murder ("We could...