Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...townie go to the game? A warm flush of pity momentarily overwhelmed him as he thought of the deed, but it was replaced by a keener flush of something he chose to call maganimity--the feeling that one never stands as straight as when one stoops to help a child...
Born. To Peter Lawford, 35, London-born actor of films (It Should Happen to You) and TV (The Thin Man), and Patricia Kennedy Lawford, 33, younger sister of Massachusetts' Senator John F. Kennedy: a second daughter, third child; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Victoria. Weight...
Born. To Albert Fred ("Red") Schoendienst, 35, switch-hitting second baseman of the Milwaukee Braves, and Mary Eileen O'Reilly Schoendienst, 35: their first son, fourth child; in St. Louis. Name: Albert Kevin. Weight...
Critic Lionel Trilling praised the book, speculated about its satirical intent: "To what end is a girl-child taught . . . to consider the brightness and fragrance of her hair, and the shape of her body, and her look of readiness for adventure? Why, what other end than that she shall be a really capable airline hostess?" In Esquire, Dorothy Parker succumbed to Nabokov's charms before the reader's eyes: "Lolita is a fine book, a distinguished book-all right, then-a great book...
...best fiction to come out of this country . . . since Faulkner's burst in the '30s. [Nabokov] may be the most important writer now going in this country." But later, the New Republic used a lead editorial to call Lolita an "obscene chronicle of murder and a child's destruction," somberly explained "what obliges us to differ with our own reviewer." It is "the real Lolitas who exist in darkness throughout their lives," ignored by book critics but "known to social workers and mental institutions...