Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SWEET CHARITY. As Toulouse-Lautrec memorialized the cancan girls of Pans, Director Bob Fosse celebrates the taxi dancers of New York with stylish staging and sophisticated choreography. Owen Verdon is a terpsichorean tornado as a gal who has a lot of love to give-if she could only find a taker...
This brisk, absorbing account of her experiences is anything but the sentimental memoir of sweet Charity. The children were often neurotic and always rebellious of any authority. German Jews looked down on Polish Jews; Orthodox Jews looked down on liberal Jews; French Jews looked down on everyone. Author Blackstock even had to fight antiChristianism among her Jewish confreres, who warily wondered why a goy should take an interest in their problems. She may have wondered herself when one orphanage director asked her, on Christmas Eve, to address the children on the meaning of Christmas, and then followed her talk with...
LUCY PAGE MERCER RUTHERFURD, "a sweet, womanly person" whose relationship with Franklin Delano Roosevelt is called "one of the great love stories of American history." See THE NATION...
...Westbrook Pegler insinuatingly linked F.D.R. with Lucy in the 1940s as part of his vendetta against the Roosevelts. In The Crisis of the Old Order, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. wrote that "Eleanor may have sensed something" about her husband's "friendly affection" for Lucy, whom Schlesinger described as "a sweet, womanly person, somewhat old-fashioned in manner but gay and outgoing." Finally, Daniels himself, in his 1954 book The End of Innocence, told of "rumors" involving the pair. But it remained for Daniels' new book to squarely designate Lucy as F.D.R.'s other love...
...life. This baby stares at the world with a fixed, forlorn expression; he is devoid of reflexes; he cannot coordinate sucking and swallowing. Later he may seem to cry-but without tears. He will never revel in the joys of candy; he cannot taste the difference between sweet and sour. When he burns himself, he may not even feel the pain. He is a victim of dysautonomia-an inherited malfunction of the nervous system...