Word: wombs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rooted in psychoanalytic theory. Moreover, this was the centenary of Freud's birth, and thousands drawn from the conventioner's and the public milled in iconolatrous rapture around a devoutly assembled collection of Freudiana-busts, portraits, manuscripts, letters. Some 2,500 made a symbolic return to the womb when they crowded into the Morrison Hotel's sub terranean Terrace Casino to hear the high priest of the pure Freudian cult, Britain's Dr. Ernest Jones, 77, eulogize the master. They gave Jones a standing ovation...
...Womb to Tomb. For the tourist in trouble, American Express is a seasoned troubleshooter, will handle just about every imaginable disaster between womb and tomb. When an Egyptologist died abroad, she left a request that American Express have her cremated and scatter her ashes on the Nile. Asked by the U.S. embassy, in 1954, to look for a traveling Vassar girl whose father had died at home, the Paris office found that it had booked the girl on a train trip to Nice, followed the trail through five countries before catching up with her in Zurich. After a New York...
Remembrance of Things Past is just what its title suggests-a backward search through sessions of sweet, silent thought into the memories of a lifetime. Like Joyce's Ulysses, it came into being when notions regarding the womb, the trauma, the unconscious were casting something like a dream-spell upon rational thinkers. Like Ulysses in this respect. Remembrance reads like a never-ending dream. But just as Ulysses manages also to portray the life and times of Joyce's Dublin, so Remembrance seems to many the greatest portrayal ever made of Proust's turn-of-the-century...
...Madison, Wis. graduate nurse who was stricken with polio when she was pregnant. The youngster's birth was normal, but he was born with paralysis of both legs and the left arm. This fact upset the generally accepted theory that a child does not contract polio in the womb...
...long day of celebration. For most of his adult life, Ichiro Hatoyama has longed to govern Japan. In fact, even before he was born, his politician father intended him to be a politician, and his mother, a woman of learning and vigor who believed that a child in the womb is shaped by the mother's thoughts, carefully limited her pregnancy reading to biographies of great men and politicians. "I do not wish to give birth to a child with a small mind," Haruko Hatoyama wrote in her diary...