Word: infant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...filed by the father of a mental patient in Manhattan State Hospital on Welfare Island, claiming that the hospital was negligent in not preventing his daughter's rape by another inmate. That negligence, he charged, not only caused his daughter suffering, but a pregnancy that brought forth an infant deprived of "property rights ... a normal childhood and home life . . . proper parental care, support and rearing." For his daughter's suffering, he asked $50,000 in damages, for his granddaughter-now two years...
...State of New York did not contest the man's right to recover damages for his daughter if he could prove negligence. But it demanded dismissal of the infant's case without a trial. Never before had such a case been successfully pleaded, the state pointed out. In 1963 the Illinois Appellate Court dismissed a similar suit (Zepeda v. Zepeda) on the ground that recognition of a bastard's right to collect damages would mean creation of a new tort. If that happened, ruled the Illinois court, "one might seek damages for being born of a certain...
None shows this better than his masterpiece, the Mystical Marriage of St. Catherine. According to legend, Catherine was executed and borne heavenward by angels where her devotion was rewarded when, having refused many suitors, she was betrothed to the Infant Christ by the Virgin Mary. It should be a supremely happy occasion, but as Romanino portrays it, the scene is singularly lacking in heavenly joy. The skies are threatening, the nuns troubled, the Virgin sad, the Infant petulant. Miraculously wedding deep Venetian hues, Lombardian realism and Gothic expressionism, the painting seems a superb summation of that place and that moment...
...parasites that cling to the queen are females, and when she lays her eggs they lay eggs of their own. Dutifully, the fire ant workers care for both sets of eggs and raise the infant parasites just as if they were young of their own species. The parasites thrive while their considerate hosts all but work themselves to death taking care of them The fire ant economy is wrecked. The Healthy parasites mate conveniently in the nest and then fly away to subvert and weaken other fire ant colonies...
...public friend and private enemy of union labor, scuttied off to Europe before the strike began. Henry Clay Frick, his partner, was left to do all the dirty work-and he did it willingly. Prick's strategy was to break the strongest union in Sam Gompers' infant American Federation of Labor. He succeeded. Not until 1935, with the formation of the C.I.O., did the nation's steelworkers effectively organize again...