Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Father rats pay no attention to their children (they don't know which' are theirs), but mother rats make cozy nests for their six litters a year. They always abandon their young when threatened, but when unmolested show tender regard for their infants' education. No adolescent rat is allowed to leave the nest until old enough to fend for itself. Its mother guides it out, trains it to keep close to walls, teaches it caution by testing all food for poison. -She warns against dogs, cats and traps. Specialist Nicholes believes that rats have some sort...
...suffering of millions of people is beyond comprehension. Wisely, this story focuses on just two individual samples of it-a Czech mother (Metropolitan Soprano Jarmila Novotna*) and her little boy (Ivan Jandl, who was "discovered" in a Prague radio station...
...life, she gained recognition herself by writing the minor sagas of the people and places she knew well (My Cousin, F. Marion Crawford; This Was My Newport), won the 1917 Pulitzer Prize (with Sister Laura E. Richards) for Julia Ward Howe, a two-volume biography of her mother...
...mother, obsessed with her search for the child that she cannot believe has died, walks the endless, desolate German Autobahnen from D.P. camp to D.P. camp. The child, who has had his power of speech, his very memory torn out of him, is a pure derelict, looking for nobody and nothing beyond the next mouthful of bread...
...were a wild animal. Gradually he finds that he can trust them, and begins to learn English-just as nine-year-old Ivan Jandl did to play the part. Watching an officer's wife with her child, the boy begins to realize what a mother is, and what is lacking in his own life. Some of the suspense and coincidence through which the mother and son are finally reunited may seem a little overcalculated, but in postwar Europe fact is often stranger than fiction...