Word: milkings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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syrup of human kindness. Sweeter and stickier than the milk. See THEATER, The Sound of Music...
...been worked out for people on relief in the days of the Depression . . . And I remember well the day when the author of this book, my son James, said to me pathetically at lunch: 'If I paid five cents extra, Mother, could I have a glass of milk?' And there was the time [the late aviatrix] Amelia Earhart, who was staying with us on a brief visit, said she was hungry and could get nothing to eat in the late evening. This was because she did not know how to go about it. And my son John found...
When Phillip was born in the West Texas town of Kermit (pop. 7,000), doctors soon saw that nature had made a series of deadly mistakes. Milk could not reach the baby's stomach, because his gullet came to a dead end in the upper chest. He had no anal opening (the lower colon wound itself into another dead end). Furthermore, both kidneys were on the right side, and one did not work. Surgeons at nearby Odessa made a temporary opening into Phillip's stomach so he could be fed, and another opening in the lower bowel...
...that, instead of offsetting sweetness with lightness, it turns sticky with sweetness and light. Though often attractive, the abbey scenes come off too pretty; though sometimes fetching, the children's scenes come off too cute. Even Mary Martin, however deft, comes off a little too lovable. The milk of human kindness is not enough for The Sound of Music. It insists on the syrup, till even the Nazis seem mere bad goblins in a fairy tale...
...things," she assured him, "are so secret they wouldn't even tell us." She gave an audible chuckle. "See that man?" she said, singling out a well-dressed gentleman with pad and pencil. "He's observing the effects of this meal. You know, he measures how many ounces of milk are left over, and things like that...