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Every decade has its new chair. In the '30s people perched in the plywood Alvar Aalto chair; in the '40s it was Charles Eames's Potato Chip; the '50s sought refuge in the Womb Chair of Eero Saarinen. But the chosen chair of the '60s is not new at all; the Thonet (pronounced Tonay) bentwood has been around for more than 100 years...
House drama (as everyone knows) is the starturing womb of new theatrical talent year after year; and so it should surprise no one that opening nights groan so heavily with labor pains. Last night a determined cast reduced these twinges to a bearable degree and often swayed the audience to great expectations, but in the end, when the hurly-burly was done, the child emerged stillborn...
...grows impatient with the child's reluctance to depart his fine mandala world, shows anger. "Such human hos tility makes children into bad adults," Mrs. Kellogg says. "If we had more art and better art, there wouldn't be any of this 'going back to the womb.' " To gath er evidence for her beliefs, she has taught some 10,000 children in 35 nursery schools, traveled to every corner of the world, gathered so much child art that it is slowly pushing her out of her four-story house...
...treats very wisely of life and death, Miss Duke asks a contemporary with open-mouthed wonder, "Duh--what's an agnostic?" Miss Duke and her playmate (James Aubrey) seem mature beyond their years throughout most of the play, but in the final scene they regress practically back to the womb, before surging back into virtual senescence for some metaphysical meanderings...
Less common than come-and-go infectious diseases, but far more insidious and likely to cause lifelong handicaps, are the defects humans are born with. The majority of congenital defects, it is currently believed, come when something goes wrong in the womb-typically, cataracts in a child resulting from the fact that the mother had German measles (TIME, Aug. 1, 1960). The rest are hereditary, dating from the instant that a sperm and an ovum, one or both defective, join to make a defective cell. In the subdividing process that starts at once, every newly created cell carries...