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...Bulletin told of two little Baltimore boys and a girl who were like the Spartan. Johns Hopkins' Drs. Frank Rodolph Ford & Lawson Wilkins discovered them, found that they stubbed toes, barked shins, broke bones, chewed fingers raw, lifted hot plates off stoves - all without complaint. Even when the tender Achilles tendon (just above the heel) "is squeezed these children make no protest and show no sign of pain," reported the doctors. When touched with a pin they can feel the difference between the point and the head. And they can distinguish slight changes in temperature. The doctors concluded that...
...order until her death twelve years ago. Because Nathaniel Hawthorne's powers of observation were extremely acute, and because he filled his many notebooks with jottings about his children, his random writings about them make up one of the best pictures of childhood in U. S. literature-tender, unexpected, funny, but with the overtones of melancholy that run through all Hawthorne's writing...
Many critics call the turn by glibly referring to The Sea Gull as a tragedy of frustration. But the play is tragicomedy, impaling human foibles as well as hearts. Tender but ruthless, The Sea Gull smiles upon the too-utterly-utter side of the artistic temperament, reflects the conflict between two incompatible generations. It exposes Trigorin's rueful egotism: "On my tombstone," says Trigorin, "they will say: Here lies Trigorin, who was a good writer, but not so good a one as Turgenev." It exposes Nina's swimming-eyed romanticism. Chekhov suggested, though Actor Lunt has not heeded...
Reader Carens has the wrong impression. Goalie Kerr appeared on TIME'S cover precisely because the appearance of a new topflight goal tender is more newsworthy than the continuance of a veteran who has been top-flight for ten years...
With its excellent descriptions of Florida scrub landscapes, its skillful use of native vernacular, its tender relation between Jody and his pet fawn, The Yearling is a simply written, picturesque story of boyhood that stands a good chance, when adults have finished with it, of finding a permanent place in adolescent libraries...