Word: wombs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lighten the burden of such Empire-building philoprogenitiveness as the Naylors', William Pitt 150 years ago suggested that Parliament contribute to the support of large poor families. Nothing was done about it until 1942, when Sir William Beveridge's "Womb to Tomb" plan prodded a census-minded government to action. In 1945, a month before the Labor Party came to power, the family allowance plan became...
...strongest and strangest drama arises as Conant and Bush sprawl once more in the sand to reproduce for cameras the suspense and release of that moment at Alamogordo when the Atomic Age cut loose its first appalling kick in history's womb. According to New York Timesman William L. Laurence, some witnesses at Alamogordo were moved by the actual event to perform a kind of primordial fire dance. But history-or rather the human ability to stare history straight in the eyes-is not yet tough enough to endure that sight. Instead of the dance, the movie shows Conant...
...more cultured the races of the earth have become," wrote Read in Childbirth without Fear (Harper; $2.75), "so much the more dogmatic they have been in pronouncing childbirth to be a painful and dangerous ordeal." But fear inhibits the muscles which open the womb and thrust out the child, causing pain and compounding the fear into further suffering. He claims to have made childbirth a pleasure for many women by 1) starting to dispel their fears and ignorance soon after they become pregnant, 2) teaching them in advance how to relax and make the child come easily, 3) giving them...
...surrealists, who were more noisy than numerous, beauty was just the stuff that dreams are made of. Salvador Dali still led the somnambulating flock, with pictures brilliant, boneless and as bland as the fried eggs he claims to have seen while he was still in his mother's womb...
Bogging down in dialogue midway in the second act, "Laura" stagnates because the characters describe rather than do anything. Otto Kruger's Waldo Lydecker, who, in his own words, "sprang from the womb with an epigram on my lips," is too amusing, turning what should have been a taut mystery into a second rate Phillip Barry drawing room comedy incidentally concerned with murder. "Laura's" John Dalton climax, so successful in the film, is inexplicably greeted by laughs in the play: the change in medium has somehow twisted the playwright's intentions...