Word: wombs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...London's University College Hospital, Obstetrician C. N. Smyth and Audiologist K. P. Murphy were trying to find out why some babies are born deaf. To their surprise, they discovered that even while normal babies are still in the womb they can not only hear musical tones, but usually respond to them by speeding up their heartbeat. The phenomenon may be observed as long as three months before the baby...
...recent article in Time may that reluctance to leave the academic womb is the least of the grad students' motives, but roughly 45 percent of the Class of '61 applied to at least one Harvard graduate school. About of the 472 applications were and 146 men, 24 per cent of all planning immediate graduate were expected to come back to Harvard last fall. It must be admitted that Harvard does have some of the country's best graduate schools, but love must have played a part, in the decisions of the 92 who to the GSAS...
...collegians' urge to go on studying stems from all sorts of reasons, and staying in the academic womb is apparently the least of them. Beating the draft is no prime mover, either-although one Princeton cynic did remark last week, "I'm doing graduate work at my fiancée's school next year so I can marry her this summer and avoid the draft." But far more pervasive is the idea that the B.A. is neither sufficient as a guarantee of a good job-big-company recruiters increasingly demand M.A.s-nor as a certificate of intellectual satisfaction...
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...