Word: infantability
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...robust tone, and a remarkable set composed by Carlo Gesualdo, a madman, was nearly as successful. The bizarre chromaticism of Gesualdo's music may reflect the turbulence of his even more unconventional private life--at age 30 he murdered his wife and her lover, and then finished off his infant daughter as well, on account of her uncertain paternity...
Thomas Jefferson is generally perceived as the philosopher-statesman nonpareil of the infant nation. His accomplishments affect and touch us still. He drafted the Declaration of Independence and championed the Louisiana Purchase. He founded the University of Virginia and built Monticello. Yet Jefferson the man remains an extraordinarily elusive and ambivalent figure. Historian Dumas Malone, one of the most acute Jeffersonists, ruefully wrote: "I flattered myself that some time I would fully comprehend and encompass him. I do not claim that I have yet done so, and I do not believe that I or any other single person...
Thomas De Quincey's mother, who ought to have known one when she saw one, called the infant Thomas Babington Macaulay a "baby genius." From the age of three, "Clever Tom" was a compulsive reader whose idea of a wild childhood game was to act out Homer, reserving for himself the role of Achilles. At six, the future author of the five-volume History of England was at work on a compendium of world history...
EVERY SO OFTEN, the neglected house of music literature is adorned with a fresh coat of paint. The Pushbutton Telephone Songbook is the latest example. Out of nowhere comes this slim but precious volume, this musical breath of fresh air that gives readers the same sense of joy an infant feels eating warm pablum on a cold winter morning...
...result, the painful decision to treat or not to treat a deformed infant rests squarely on the shoulders of the parents and their physicians. To help parents make their decision, doctors in major hospitals now meet with parents of a deformed baby as soon as possible after deli very, explain the nature of the child's problems, and outline the steps that must be taken if life is to be preserved. They also try to provide an honest evaluation of the kind of life their efforts may succeed in preserving. Despite the shock and disappointment of having a deformed...