Word: hearths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...desensitized lot of voyeurs, by the way. Many buffs volunteer for the Red Cross, helping families rebuild after they've lost home or hearth...
Dove, along with Marsden Hartley, was one of the finest talents of the early years of American modernism, part of the circle of painters whose hearth was the little 291 gallery in New York City and whose tireless promoter, supporter and voice in the desert was Alfred Stieglitz. Dove's father, a well-off Geneva, N.Y., brick manufacturer, expected his son to be a lawyer and never wholly forgave him for becoming an artist. To Dove, as to the more conflicted Hartley, Stieglitz was mentor, friend and (virtually) a second father. Starting before World War I, Dove's slow-maturing...
...power to keep a four-year-old quiet. All parents know about this miraculous effect, and many take advantage of it without even caring what program is on--Mannix reruns, Cochran and Company, golf--as long as the child sits staring dumbly at the fires of the TV hearth...
...earliest play dates; to view school, even grade school, as a ruthless competition; to enter the work force unsure of where they're going but clear enough that the destination is the top. And now they're rebelling in their own way--not in the streets but back to hearth and home...
DIED. JUDITH MERRIL, 74, science-fiction dame of peerless anthologies and foreboding novels such as Shadow on the Hearth; of heart failure; in Toronto. One of the first female S-F writers, Merril voiced new--but still bleak--concerns, writing, for example, about a mother's love for her severely deformed baby...