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...understand Beckett's sullen craft and art fully, it is best to recall that age during which all human voices almost automatically speak poetry-childhood. Then, too, the voice is a plaything, a comforter in the dark. In spite of his tottering old men, Beckett is more the toddler; he is the child at bedtime who says "No!" with all of his heart and then gently holds out his hand. And like the child, too, in his awful ambivalence, he is beyond-and before-judgment, so close does he tread on that nether world between creation and destruction...
...been raised the day before on the very spot where the U.S. flag was burned on April 15. Another had been flown over the 1st Marine Division's headquarters in South Viet Nam. Teen-aged boys had them sewn on the backs of denim jackets, and every toddler seemed to be clutching a flag. There were even a couple of flags attached to the chutes of two skydivers who parachuted into Central Park. Though New York's police conspicuously sympathized with the march-1,000 off-duty cops donned uniforms to take part-they slapped the skydivers with...
Gowon is like a toddler trying to sweep out a room with a big broom-amusing and slightly pathetic. -Lieut. Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu
Gerber, with babies still its only business, has begun thinking beyond infant appetites to consider the total baby. The company is marketing pants, bibs, socks, shirts, crib sheets and toddler clothes, is testing paper washcloths, diapers and lotion-treated tissues, and five months ago set up a department to explore other diversification...
...Lilly D. Hoekstra, administrator of St. Louis Children's Hospital. "Mothers," she said, "leave the pills in a conspicuous place so they won't forget to take them." In modest doses the pills are probably not dangerous, but a month's supply may make a toddler miserably ill. The prime remedy, as in most childhood poisonings, is ipecac to get the victim to vomit...