Word: infant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since its inception in 1946, the Social Relations Department has acquired more stereotypes than any other infant of comparable age. Its detractors call it everything from an esoteric clique to a white-shoe meeting place, and its concentrators do indeed range to these extremes...
...keeps babies busy while they wait to be examined. When the doctor is ready, a nurse lures the child away from his play with the promise of lollypops just around the corner, indeed right inside the doctor's office. The bait has been so successful that lollypops have won infant praise for the Mount Auburn Street project: each patient leaves licking, and liking pediatric study...
...help to people who already have tuberculosis. But many bacteriologists and doctors believe that if every infant in the world were to be vaccinated with BCG, the disease would be wiped out completely within a few generations...
With his rollicking first show Alan Young apparently put himself into the big time with Milton Berle, Ed Wynn and other topnotch TV comics. Living quietly in Hollywood with his wife and infant daughter (he has two children by his first wife), Young works hard and keeps regular business hours. He says he likes TV and is not worrying too much about the future. For one thing, he can play the bagpipes. If things get too tough, he figures that bagpipes are always good for a scream...
With hardly any waste motion behind the scenes, Liebman gets plenty of movement on the TV screen. In 27-year-old Sid Caesar he has a TV-raised multi-dimensional comedian who is equally convincing as a slot machine, a head-lolling infant, a British general or a Freudian psychiatrist just off the plane from Vienna. Caesar's comedy partner is pint-sized Imogene Coca ("No one knows how old she is"), who can switch from a prim Victorian to a stripteaser to a Wagnerian Valkyrie without missing a nuance or a laugh...