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...correspondence, except when she made a diffident reference ("my usual disease, in the head you know") or when, as in a letter to Vanessa, the illness itself shadowed her prose: "All the devils came out-hairy black ones. To be 29 and unmarried-to be a failure-childless-insane too, no writer...
...busy Calcutta center that feeds the hungry and shelters abandoned children, remain Moslems or Hindus if the parents wish; only foundlings are baptized. The nun who runs the center conspiratorially reveals that the sisters have saved more than one Hindu marriage from family pressure by quietly providing a childless couple with a newborn baby to pass off as their...
...other programs as much as the inequities of federal and state reimbursement formulas for New York's welfare system--inequities that make New York State 39th on the list of states receiving federal welfare subsidies, and force the city to take half the burden of welfare for single adults, childless couples and the working poor, for whom the Federal Government accepts no responsibility...
...earlier Nobel laureate, Albert Camus, Montale was a bitter antiFascist. His quiet refusal to truckle to Mussolini cost him a sinecure as library executive. Throughout World War II he supported himself by translating an astonishing variety of writers, among them Shakespeare, Eugene O'Neill and Dorothy Parker. A childless widower, Montale now lives in Milan, where he contributes literary and music criticism for the daily Corriere della Sera. The prize of $143,000 is unlikely to alter his life or writings. With typical candor, Montale declared last week that the prize has simply made his existence, "which has always...
Mark Levy, 27, of Fairfield, Ohio, had good reason to be surprised and excited last month. His wife Pamela, 28 and previously childless, had just given birth to quintuplets-a phenomenon that until recently happened only once in every 41 million births. But quintuple deliveries and other multiple births have become more commonplace lately; Pamela, like thousands of other women, had been taking a fertility drug called Pergonal. Doctors estimate that women who become pregnant after treatment with Pergonal are many times more likely, and women who take another fertility drug called Clomid slightly more likely, than other women...