Word: infant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ruined battery. But by following a series of strong charging pulses with a brief reversal of current, the McCulloch engineers found that they could dissipate the accumulated gases and successfully recharge the battery. The sys tem, says a McCulloch spokesman, is comparable to the way a mother interrupts her infant's feeding with burping to get rid of gas in the baby's stomach...
...Carlo Ponti Jr., long-awaited son of the Italian producer and Actress Sophia Loren, will become a contributor to the family cinematic combine at the tender age of six months. In I Girasoli (The Sunflowers), a Ponti production now filming in Moscow, Carlo Jr. will portray Sophia's infant son. "I managed to convince Carlo Sr. to allow our son to work in the movie so I could have my baby with me all the time," she said. "I don't want to be away from him for a moment." The script offers an arresting contrast...
Apart his cruelty, man is also unique among the primates for his slow rate of development, which keeps him relatively helpless for almost a quarter of his life. According to Storr, the human infant cannot respond adequately to its environment, resulting in impotent rage and fear. Analysts refer to this earliest stage of emotional childhood as the paranoid-schizoid position...
This stage is strongly imprinted in the infant's memory, and acts as the unconscious base for paranoid projections in later adult life...
Storr summed up by stating that there is a critical transition between the "vegetative life of the fetus and the independent life of the infant, and consistent mothering is required to pass it unscarred...