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...DIED. Leo Kanner, 86, recognized as the father of child psychology for being the first to describe early infantile autism, which also became known as Kanner syndrome, and for other pioneering work at the Johns Hopkins Children's Psychiatric Clinic, which he founded in 1930; in Sykesville, Md. Kanner wrote the classic textbook Child Psychiatry (1935) as well as more popular works on child rearing in which, for example, he urged mothers to regain the common sense that had "been yours before you allowed yourselves to be intimidated by would-be omniscient totalitarians...
...Leo Manis, another Prescott street resident, said yesterday "Since my building was bought by Harvard in 1968, nothing got done until we brought in the local Health Department. That was in 1978. Today conditions are not much better. They are milking the property...
...appears to Attila in a dream, barring the Hun's way to Rome. "You are appointed as scourge only against mankind," he tells him, in tones that forecast the Grand Inquisitor in Don Carlos. "This is the territory of the gods." When Attila encounters the man-historically, Pope Leo I-in the flesh, he hears the same words, set to the same melody, which Verdi has also used in that scene to raise the curtain on Attila's uneasy slumber. The act ends with a majestic chorus in which the Italians sing of their coming triumph while Attila...
...lock of his front door earlier this year. He lost $32 and his credit cards. A few months before that, Magnuson's apartment was burglarized. "The only evidence they left behind was a pair of shoes," he says. "They weren't even my size." Associate Editor John Leo, who wrote the assessment of crime's impact on American society, is a two-time burglary victim. Says he: "All U.S. cities are in danger of becoming unlivable. For a parent, the fear for your children is never very far from your mind...
...perhaps self-hate. After achieving degradations close to madness, Newlove stopped drinking. In 1970 he published The Painter Gabriel, a novel whose subject, fresh language and touching exuberance reminded some critics of Joyce Gary's The Horse's Mouth. Generous praise greeted his second novel, Leo & Theodore, a picaresque about the bawdy adventures of Siamese twins growing up near Lake Erie, the author's home turf. This book and its sequel, The Drunks, were revised and republished as Sweet Adversity...