Word: infantability
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...with no music, just a whipsaw wind. Through the gauze of dusk forms a cluster of stars-no, a spider's web -the filigree work of predestination, trapping every animal who will pass through this forest. A fox sprints over the tall grass, fear in her eyes, an infant fox dangling from her clenched teeth. A gunshot sounds; a flock of birds rises from the grass. The fox is dead, her infant an orphan. Happy summer, boys and girls! This is the new Disney cartoon feature...
...tumbling through worlds of arbors and harbors, moonlight and lamplight, irrevocable loss and paradise regained. In the end the villainous goblins are revealed as babies, but in the author's view this makes them no less terrifying: What could be more incessant and demanding than an infant? At each turn, Sendak provides illustrations that refer to-and bear comparison, with-the putti of Raphael, Da Vinci's Virgin of the Rocks and the entire school of German Romanticism. The sprung rhythms of the text and the richly allusive paintings do not make Outside Over There inappropriate for children...
...article on the confirmation hearings of Ernest Lefever [June 1] you falsely state that "Lefever's think tank accepted at least $25,000 from the Nestlé company after commissioning a study that turned out to support Nestlé's marketing of infant formula in developing countries." There is no such study. Although I agreed to write a monograph for Lefever. I have not done the study nor have I received a penny...
...dissenting vote against the WHO'S infant-formula resolution [June 1] announces to citizens of underdeveloped countries what they must have known all along: "We care more about your money than about your lives...
Several Senators had been especially troubled by the ethics of Lefever's supposedly independent think tank in accepting money from the Nestle company, one of the world's largest sellers of infant formula, for a study of the use of baby-food supplements, a highly charged Third World issue. The companies making such products were already under fierce attack; last month the World Health Organization's member countries voted 118 to 1 (the U.S.) for a code sharply limiting the advertising and marketing of infant formulas. In his testimony before the committee on May 18, Lefever...