Word: inborn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...baby is born too deaf to hear, he cannot imitate speech and therefore cannot learn to talk. At least one baby in every thousand is born with no apparent capacity for hearing; he is "deaf and dumb." But so-called congenital deaf-mutism is actually a misnomer because inborn defects of the vocal cords that make speech impossible are almost unknown. The real trouble is in the hearing mechanism. The vocal difficulty is almost inevitable because children judged to be beyond the help of any hearing aid are often sent to special schools where the emphasis...
...Leonard Bernstein fired up the New York Philharmonic for Liszt's Faust Symphony and cooled them down for a lapidary performance of Haydn's Symphonies 82 and 83 (Columbia). Haydn (in Symphonies 95 and 101) also got the benefit of Fritz Reiner's accumulated wisdom and inborn precision in his last recording, made two months before his death (RCA Victor...
...golden age of bridges is now. Never before in the history of the world has man had such a wealth of means in money, materials and technology to fulfill his inborn desire to get to the other side. By using strong new steels and ingeniously strengthened concrete, he has made it possible to move himself and his goods over barriers his forebears thought uncrossable...
Little boys are not normally noted for observance of protocol. But when William Wallace Daniel, 4, was asked by Grandfather Harry S. Truman, 79, to accompany him to a bridge dedication, William fell solemnly into step a respectful three paces behind, with all the inborn aplomb of a White House aide. After the bridge at Florida's Duck Key had been named after him, Truman met the press. Who would be the Republican presidential candidate? Harry riposted: "I don't nominate Republicans; I just beat...
...most articulate spokesman for this solution is a pretty young woman named Leila Hadley, whose four children (Arthur, 18, Victoria, 10, Matthew, 8, Caroline, 4), plus a peripatetic geologist husband and an inborn wanderlust provided the fieldwork for her new, four-volume guidebook, How to Travel with Children in Europe...