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...than to read), 'art seminars in the home,' capsule operas, 'Chopin by Starlight.' 'The Sound of Wagner,' 'The Best of World Literature'; this cornucopia thrust at the inexperienced and pouring out its contents over us all deadens attention and keeps taste stillborn, like any form of gross feeding. Too much art in too many places means art robbed of its right associations, its exact forms, its concentrated power. We are grateful for the comprehensive repertoire which modern industry for the first time puts within our reach, but we turn sick...
...first noble patron), his failure (when his celebrated Night Watch insults prominent members of the local militia, whose faces he partially hid in the background), and his Job-like sufferings. One by one, father, mother, crippled brother and spinster sister go to their graves. Three children are either stillborn or die in infancy before a sickly son survives. Then the wife dies, the child's loving nurse goes mad, an apprentice is blown to smithereens in an accident. All this Author Schmitt tells, and sometimes poignantly. But long before she gets to the real tragedies in Rembrandt...
...scare young, unwed mothers-to-be so much that they often try to hide their condition, and fully half of them manage, with skillful dissembling, to get away with it and stay in school. In consequence, they mostly do without prenatal care, and many of the resulting babies are stillborn. To break this chain of unhappy events, the New York State department of social welfare last week urged the city to let pregnant girls finish the school term and to teach the need of prenatal care in the schools' "family life" courses. The board of education agreed to consider...
...found to have high blood pressure, heart disease, overactive adrenal glands, and a mysterious, often fatal blood condition called toxemia of pregnancy. Doctors decided to end the pregnancy, but before they could operate on Mrs. Doe. she had a stroke that left her partly paralyzed. Then her baby was stillborn. She still has severe right-side paralysis, heart disease, kidney damage, impairment of speech and emotional instability. It is Dr. Buxton's judgment as a physician that another pregnancy might easily kill Mrs. Doe. He wants to advise heras he could in 49 states-to use contraceptive devices...
...mystery is complicated when the body of a stillborn baby is discovered nearby-no girl in the village, as someone remarks, was known to have been as pregnant as all that. The local justice of the peace, who is also a miner and a poet, follows the crime to its solution. But violence, although it is one of the elements of life in Novelist Gallie's village, is not the dominant one. The book begins with poetry-impudent, rope-skipping verses shrilled out by little girls-and it ends the same way, as the justice of the peace...