Word: infants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Beckett's stingy way with words captures her existence fully:"... parents unknown ... unheard of... he having vanished ... thin air ... no sooner buttoned up his breeches... she similarly... eight months later ... almost to the tick ... so no love ... spared that ... no love such as normally vented on the ... speechless infant..." In a phrase as simple as "spared that," Beckett blends savage humor and poignancy...
...Murdoch plans to reverse Felker's transformation of the Village Voice over the past couple of years from a gritty neighborhood weekly to more of a faddish entertainment guide. "It's got away from politics," Murdoch complains. "It's gone too much into life-styles." As for Felker's infant New West, "It's superb. I would not want to change anything." Murdoch promises that he will not try to edit any of the Felker publications himself. Says he: "The Post is enough...
...narcissistic than men and more prone to neurosis, that they are rigid and unchangeable by the age of 30, and unable to equal the high moral character of men. These doleful views flow from a single Freudian concept: penis envy. As Freud saw it, female identity grows from an infant girl's shocking discovery that she lacks a penis. Later, in about the third year of life, she carries this sense of castration and inferiority into the Oedipal cycle, blaming the mother for the loss of the penis, turning to the father as a love object, and converting...
...well. No public housing has been built recently. Daley refused to put the projects in white areas and lost federal funds as a result. Chicago remains statistically the most segregated major city in the nation. And the Machine can't and won't do much for ghetto dwellers. The infant mortality rate is higher in Chicago than in any other large metropolitan area...
...book, Letter to a Child Never Born, to be published in English next month by Simon & Schuster, is the monologue of a nameless, husbandless professional delivered to her unborn child. The baby dies in the womb, but not before its mother probes her own motives for childbearing and the infant's right to be born. "This is a story about a doubt, the biggest of all-whether or not to bring a human being into the world," says Fallaci, 46. Is the iconoclast revealing her own sphinxlike self? Hardly. According to Fallaci, Letter is not True Confessions: "I have...