Word: infant
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Despite such onstage bitterness, personally Albee seems as unangry as Donleavy. Adopted 32 years ago as a two-week-old infant by Reed Albee, a member of the famed family that founded and managed the Keith-Albee vaudeville circuit, he grew up around the theater. Before long he moved to Greenwich Village to stay. After spending his nights writing "750 pages of the world's worst trilogy," he quit his last odd job-Western Union messenger-three years ago to become a playwright. His first effort, The Zoo Story, an affecting work about the failure of communication between...
...very senior readers of a schoolbook knowledge of rhetoric; few nowadays can tell the difference between an ANAPEST and an Anabaptist (the former being a verse meter, as in "He flies through the air with the greatest of ease," and the latter being one who questions the efficacy of infant baptism). Those who say to this, "I couldn't care less," utter not only an AMPHIBRACH but a CLICHÉ, although they might be astonished to hear it, much as Molière's bourgeois gentil-homme was astounded to discover that all his life he had been...
...devoured the infant child...
...infant child is not aware
Isidor Isaac Rabi, 62, became a scientist, he says, for one overpowering reason: "I couldn't help it." Brought to the U.S. from Austria as an infant, he has never forgotten his mother's daily query when he came home from public school on Manhattan's Lower East Side: "Did you ask any good questions today?" For a brief period Rabi (rhymes with hobby) did try the workaday world outside the laboratory?he analyzed furniture polish and mothers' milk; he ran a Brooklyn newspaper until it failed?"then came the vision, I found physics and myself." His experiments in molecular...