Word: four-year-old
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...maybe baby sitter") of the state's junior colleges, lifetime opponent of the teachings of Philosopher John Dewey. While a student at the University of Chicago in 1896, where Dewey held sway over the philosophy department, Eby was assigned to teach Dewey-style manual training to a four-year-old lad named Archibald MacLeish. Soon disillusioned ("A good thing Archie didn't catch on; he might have become a carpenter instead of a poet"), Eby declared his independence of the master by taking a course in Christian ethics rather than Dewey's course in pragmatic philosophy...
...capital of Turkey been much larger, the incident might have passed unnoticed, but before long all of Ankara seemed to be talking about Idil Biret, the amazing four-year-old daughter of a local sugar-refinery official. One day in 1946 little Idil sat down at the piano, and without a note of music before her, dashed off a Bach piece she had just heard over the radio. The story gave newspapers and music lovers an idea: Why couldn't the state send Turkey's child prodigies abroad for proper study...
...lost-in-a-balloon aplomb or the Mad-King-of-Bavaria hauteur of Cyril Ritchard. At the same time no one knows more surefire tricks. Ritchard will do as many absurd and outrageous things to keep an audience amused as a desperate father will do to make his four-year-old darling...
...Menace. In Batavia, Ill., Nellie Reynolds tumbled down a flight of stairs during a baby-sitting session, collected $146 damages from her employers after she discovered that her four-year-old charge had extracted the tacks from a section of stair carpeting...
...Hungary, bulletheaded Communist Party Boss Matyas Rakosi, a onetime Kun lieutenant, set out to grab power. Using what he called salami tactics-a slice at a time-Rakosi cut off his opponents. Kovacs was sent to Siberia (where, after nearly nine years, he was released a few months ago). In 1947, with his four-year-old son held hostage, the Smallholders' Premier Ferenc Nagy, the last hope of a free Hungary, was forced to resign and flee into exile...