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Virginia's correspondence eased her loneliness. Much of it seems to have been written only to get letters in return. Desperate for affection, often in the most childish way, she created pet names for all her correspondents. Her cousin Emma Vaughan was variously "Toad", "Todkins", and "Toadlebinks"; her sister Vanessa was "Dolphin", "Sheepdog" or just "Nessa"; her brother Thoby was "Gribbs", "Grim", "Herbert", or "Thobs"; and she signed herself just about anything: "Billy Goat", "Goat", "Goatus Esq.", "Wallaby", "Kangaroo", "Apes", and so forth. Over half the letters in this volume are addressed to Violet Dickinson, a six foot two spinster...
Hiss's rebuttal was immediate-and lame. He accused Weinstein of bias and called his conclusions "childish." But he did not refute most of those conclusions, including Weinstein's contentions-based on a letter that one defense lawyer had written to another in 1948-that Hiss knew that the Woodstock typewriter had been given away to the maid's son. Instead, Hiss merely reiterated an oft-leveled accusation that the typewriter produced at his perjury trial had a serial number (Woodstock N230099) that indicated it was manufactured one year later than the one he had once owned...
Some workers also felt that having their first names embossed on their uniforms was "childish," Adams House shop steward Mary King said yesterday
Unless it is yoked to technology, the past or the future, fantasy makes many adults nervous, as if they had discovered imaginary toads in their real gardens. Disch shows that an unfettered imagination need not be childish or frivolous. His stories show just how serious fancies...
...could wish for a little more narrative drive in the proceedings, a little more invention and tension. Still, Wilder's film would probably be a worthwhile addition to the CIA's indoctrination program-reminding recruits that espionage is essentially the stuff of childish fantasy, therefore dangerous for grown men to take too seriously. As for the rest of us, the movie is probably the fastest escape from the holiday blahs that Hollywood is offering this season...