Word: infantability
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...love my country, but my wife [an Icelandic pianist whom he had met in Moscow] prefers to live in England." Nevertheless, Ashkenazy has not been back to Russia since 1963. His parents have not seen their oldest grandchild, Vladimir Jr., 41, in three years; they have never seen their infant granddaughter Nadya. Still, alone of all the Soviet artists who prefer the Western side of the Iron Curtain, Ashkenazy refuses to defect, clings carefully to his Russian citizenship. He hardly notices that each year he edges a little farther away. In the old days, he forgot to put articles...
...Caucasian Chalk Circle, by Bertolt Brecht, is a kind of pinko version of The Perils of Pauline. Grusha (Elizabeth Huddle) is a good soul, a simple kitchen maid who snatches up an infant princeling when the child is abandoned by the evil wife of the governor during a revolution in a legendary kingdom around A.D. 1200. With the baby strapped to her back, Grusha embarks on a series of adventures that include crossing a rotting bridge over a 2,000-ft. gorge with soldiery in hot pursuit, a marriage of inconvenience with a draft dodger, and a confrontation several years...
...marvelously timed acting command of the role. He knows that an old man does not collect his thoughts but wool-gathers them, that an old man's legs do not walk but must be lifted, that an old man's hands twitch vagrantly like an infant's in sleep, that an old man's eyes sometimes glow like blown embers and sometimes fade out as swiftly and secretly as dusk. Yet within this fraying husk of age, the man from Hannibal stands vibrantly whole, incorrigibly acute, a genius of uncommon sense...
...arms fell off, what time the fat, water, and blood dropped out at his finger ends." More hideous still was the burning of Perrotine Massey who, "being great with child, did fall on her side in the fire, where as the belly of the woman brast asunder, the infant fell into the fire, and being taken out was had to the bailiff, who gave censure that it should be carried back again...
...NIGER Under the Ministry of Education, Volunteers will travel between villages to teach adults basic literacy in native languages, French and arithmetic. An artist will help develop audio-visual aids. Those under Ministry of Health will work in social centers and rural dispensaries, teaching hygiene, sanitation, infant are, sewing, cooking and literacy. Nurses will teach theoretical and practical work to students at the nursing school in Niamey...