Word: infantability
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...France's painters, Antoine Watteau was Frederick's favorite, just as he had been the favorite in France at the time of the infant Louis XV. With the passing of the young Louis' autocratic father, a reaction had set in against everything grandiose and monumental; nothing could have appealed more to the nobility, so recently released from the blinding authority of the Sun King, than Watteau's languid and worry-free world of harlequins and sultry lovers and frolicking aristocrats. Watteau's shingle for the art dealer Gersaint was apparently done on whim...
...development of the scribbles into art's higher language is governed by "muscle play," Mrs. Kellogg says; the child discovers the circle when his arm tires of outward movement and he makes the corresponding line back toward himself. Then, by combining one form and another, the infant artist makes further discoveries about order and balance, all of them intuitive, and all drawn from imagination rather than observation...
...wild species, and every baby born is a wild young thing." Civilization is the force which subdues the wildness of each infant as it matures...
...family to discipline him in the rigid Japanese rules of life, which dictated that a boy must stick with his first employer for life. Matsushita at 1 6 deserted his job as apprentice bicycle repairman to join the Osaka Electric Light Co. because he saw more future in the infant electric industry. In eight years he had married and had a good position as a wiring inspector. But again he quit, scraping together $97.50 to start a tiny business making an electric socket he had designed. It failed miserably ("It was a grim year. I had to pawn my wife...
Treatment for PKU. Basil O'Connor, head of the National Foundation (the old March of Dimes group), pointed out that at least two inborn errors can now be treated. In phenylketonuria (PKU), an infant is unable to metabolize phenylalanine (one of the basic components of many proteins) and is in danger of severe mental retardation. Treatment consists simply of giving the child foods that are specially processed to remove phenylalanine. In galactosemia. the inability to convert galactose (which the body derives from milk) to glucose, untreated infants are prey to fulminating, fatal infections, and survivors suffer severe physical...