Word: reading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...often as it is a convenience. We list our present lack of a telephone as our greatest luxury. We no longer must drop whatever we are doing, day or night, and run to answer that raucous bell. I now have leisure to pursue a hobby, enjoy good music, read a book or converse with my wife. We are not dragged off against our will to meetings. We no longer must put up with the leechlike telephone salesmen and solicitors. Meanwhile, our health is better as we have eliminated one of the prime sources of emotional stress in 20th century life...
...Women are natural mothers," she answered. "I believe any woman can have children." She brought out a memory album showing tender moments of the baby's first hour at home. "I wrote the words myself," she told me, and read: "This is your world, Garnette darling, fear not, there are gentle hands and watchful eyes and smiles--The world is love...
...equipped to deal with it. The performance on records with John Gielgud and the movie with Michael Redgrave are both extant, and each would be definitive if the other did not exist. If anybody has managed to attain to the age of reason without having seen or heard or read Earnest, a visit to the local performance would not be a bad idea, simply because Wilde's masterpiece is too good to miss. But the rest of us would do just as well to remain content with our memories, because Repertory Boston is not distinguishing itself in its current production...
Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak. The book that renews all who read it and condemns those who banned...
...MINA. Author Franchise Mallet-Joris deserved a prize, said the critics, but not for her prizewinning book, L'Em-pire Céleste, which they generally dismissed as "good, meaty, lending-library stuff." The story of a poor cafe pianist who realizes his mediocrity after friends read his diary, L'Empire seemed little more than mediocre itself. Critical consensus: had the elderly ladies of the Fémina jury been on their toes, they might have given Franchise the prize for her Illusionist (1951), the story of a young girl's love affair with her father...