Word: infant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...emergence into the world, said a team of Boston biochemists headed by Harvard's Dr. Claude A. Villee. A few days before birth the liver builds up a supply of glycogen (a starch) for future conversion into sugar and fats (for energy). During and after birth the infant needs a lot of energy in a hurry, and since he cannot feed for several hours, the liver reverses the starch-storing process and turns the glycogen into energy. When the baby begins feeding, the liver goes on to a normal, lifelong rate of glycogen manufacture. ¶ "Such stuff as dreams...
...National Muscular Dystrophy Research Fundation's poster boy since the organization's founding in 1950; after wasting away from the disease for 15 years; in Port Arthur, Texas. Adopted by widowed Mrs. Louise Waller from an orphan home in Austin after he was discovered as an abandoned infant in a Waco movie theater, Raymond fell an early victim to the crippling disease that afflicts some 200,000 people in the U.S. and for which neither cause nor cure is known...
...Infant's first search for gratification is limited to release of hunger tension-oral phase. If there is no nipple handy, he puts thumb in mouth. Next comes satisfaction from defecation-anal phase. Third, pleasure from sensation in sexual parts-phallic phase. (Association of sexual gratification with reproduction-genital phase-does not come until sexual maturity.) Beginning about age two, the child's emotional attachment to mother leads to wishes to displace father-Oedipal feelings (the older, more rigid concept of an Oedipus complex is now frowned upon...
...quotas for the 48 states and Nassau County.") But the Halls were no landed GOPatricians; Father Franklyn Hall was the coachman at Theodore Roosevelt's Oyster Bay estate, Sagamore Hill. Leonard, the youngest of eight Hall children, was born on Oct. 2, 1900. When Len was an infant, his father's employer was elected Vice President of the U.S., and a month after the election Teddy Roosevelt noted the new baby's arrival in a letter to his old friend and Spanish-American War commander (the Rough Riders), General Leonard Wood...
...Motherwell's Western Air is cubism smashed flat and with a couple of sky-holes poked through it. It demonstrates how abstract expressionism can make violent use of yesterday's art furniture. Arshile Gorky's Garden in Sochi uses Miro-like amoeba shapes to express an infant memory...