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Word: infant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Parents of famous people were often hot partisans of unpopular causes. They were revolutionaries, civic reformers, Zionists, free-soilers, agnostics, abolitionists, objectors to infant damnation. Goertzel. riding his thesis hard, concludes that "the children frequently became eminent by adopting a parental point of view,-by fulfilling in action a parental daydream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: How to Be Famous | 12/26/1960 | See Source »

Died. David Hinshaw Yoo, 11 months, great-grandson of the late John Foster Dulles and only child of Dulles' granddaughter Jane Hinshaw and Hyon Yoo, a Columbia-trained Korean economics professor, now at Seoul University; in an accident when the infant became entangled in an electric blanket; in New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 12, 1960 | 12/12/1960 | See Source »

...meantime," says Gogo, "let us try and converse calmly, since we are incapable of keeping silent." Waiting for Godot has nearly no action, only waiting and talk, the talk to make the waiting pass more quickly. Gogo, intellectually an infant, curls into a foetal position and sleeps whenever he has the chance, tries to tell Didi about his dreams, talks of running away so that Didi will convince him to stay, and whines about his aching feet. Didi knows that his only important job is to keep the two together. He ignores Gogo when necessary, refuses to listen...

Author: By Allan Katz, | Title: Waiting for Godot | 11/28/1960 | See Source »

...given her seriously sick baby medicine the hospital had provided. "No, Father," she replied. "Why not?" he asked. The cryptic reply: "He's not baptized yet." Haitian peasants consider a child before baptism only a brute animal on which medicines would be wasted. Riou gave the infant medicine on the spot, made an appointment to baptize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAITI: Le Bon Blanc | 11/21/1960 | See Source »

...other hand, recalls triumphing over a singer who insisted on going up to a top C at the end of the familiar folk song Christ Child Lullaby. When the singer asked Craxton why he was looking at her "so curiously," he replied: "I was just thinking of the Infant Jesus lying in his mother's arms, and I saw him looking up at her and saying: 'Mother, you've been studying the top C, haven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Unashamed Accompanists | 11/21/1960 | See Source »

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