Word: infantalizing
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...just may be right; a son, a self-aggrandizing deserter from World War II who has a diminishing grasp of reality; a daughter who copes with life's problems by stuffing her ears with an endless supply of cotton wool, then humming loudly; and the daughter's infant child, who is hopelessly deformed yet somehow survives. The action starts with the family's kidnaping of the baby from a hospital; it ends, after a cross-continental trek, at a revivalist religious meeting in Moose Jaw, Sask., where the infant, Jesus O. Tarbox, is to be put forward...
...child's first experience of the inequity of power comes in its relationship with its mother, or the primary mothering person... If the mother uses her power for the infant's good, anticipating its need, subordinating her own, the child will probably emerge from its first six to eight months of life with what Erik Erikson called "basic trust," a view of the world and its inhabitants as benevolent and nonthreatening...
...economic status of Blacks and little it at all. More than 80 percent of the country. Black population falls below even the government-acknowledged poverty line, and infant mortality grows to epidemic proportion...
...autobiography that Fevvers tells to the skeptical Walser is, except for the business about the wings, standard 19th century melodrama. It begins with the heroine abandoned in a basket on the steps of a London brothel. A Cockney prostitute, noticing the downy lumps on the infant's shoulders, accidentally gives the foundling a surname: "Looks like the little thing's going to sprout Fevvers." Years pass, and the child earns her innocent keep about the house by posing as Cupid in the drawing room, while commercial sex flourishes around her. Then comes puberty and the improbable onset of pinions. With...
...recalled from a wheelchair last week, he exclaimed delightedly, "Now I have 20 years' worth of material to study." The final witness was Ruth Eliaz. After she bore a child, she reported, Mengele strapped her breasts with tape and settled down to see how long it took an unfed infant to die. When the emaciated child was reduced to a whimper, Eliaz was given a syringe and some morphine by a female Jewish doctor. Then, she recalled, choking back tears, "I murdered my own child...