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...riddle of life: When is a miracle not a miracle? The answer: when it is seen for the second time. To preserve his sense of wonder, he regarded the world with the eyes of Adam. Like those other English riddlers, Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear and W.S. Gilbert, Chesterton was childless. Like them, he became his own child, a 300-lb. choirboy reveling in puns and paradox. But between Chesterton and the Victorians there was a profound difference. Traditionally, English eccentrics sought refuge hi nonsense. Chesterton found shelter in sense. His immense output (some 150 books and innumerable articles and poems...
...descriptions of the friends whose faces and moods are the subjects of her photographs, Dorfman talks about the problems of trying to make a living by indexing books and selling pictures, of the way her camera subtlely intrudes into and alters conversations and relationships of being single and childless and surrounded by married couples with families...
...structure would be more equitable than the present system. People in all income groups would pay less in the future than in the recent past; but those with lower incomes would get larger reductions than more affluent people. In addition to col lecting one-shot rebates, a childless couple earning $8,000 would pay 23% less in taxes this year and in future years than in 1974; but a couple earning $40,000 would enjoy a net reduction of only...
...heart belongs to Brick (Keir Dullea), who spurns her in bed and is drowning in alcohol out of fear that he may be a homosexual. Brick's father, Big Daddy (Fred Gwynne), is dying of cancer, and the childless Maggie is in a steely duel with Brick's brother Gooper (Charles Siebert) and his fecund wife Mae (Joan Pape) for the imminent in heritance of "28,000 acres of the richest land this side of the valley Nile." What evolves is a series of confrontations that would reduce the forthcoming Foreman-Ali fight to a game of pattycake...
Your article on the falling birth rate [Sept. 9] stressed the selfish reasons (not wanting to give up careers, free time, money), while ignoring a very real reason that many young couples are remaining childless. They are taking a good look at what type of person can be a good parent...