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...Trust Yourself." When Spock wrote his first edition, a pseudoscientific strictness, introduced in the 1920s, was the rule-"Don't pick up the baby when he cries, feed him only at precise four-hour intervals." Spock stepped to the head of the pediatricians who were trying to encourage greater flexibility in baby care. They succeeded too well, he now feels: "Nowadays there seems to be more chance of a conscientious parent's getting into trouble with permissiveness [toward children] than with strictness." Keynote of Spock's latest advice to parents: "Trust yourself." Instinct, he says, prompts most...
...mosaic construction, his occasional savagery, his new instrumental groupings seemed shocking in the early 1890, they were already conventional in the 1920s to ears becoming domesticated to the wild rhythms of Igor Stravinsky or the pulverized harmonies of the atonalists. About Stravinsky and his experiments, Sibelius remained steadfastly unenthusiastic; the works of Arnold Schoenberg he found "unsympathetic." Speaking of his serious, sometimes forbidding style, Sibelius said: "Other composers may manufacture cocktails of every color; I offer the public pure water." But as he went on his own lonely way, he took huge, enthusiastic audiences with him: no serious composer...
...years when the Finnish government gave him a 2,000-marks-a-year pension (about $400) so that he could devote all his time to music. He settled down with his wife in a white clapboard house at Lake Tuusula, where they raised five daughters. By the early 1920s, he had turned out 13 tone poems, seven symphonies, countless songs and choral works. He attempted an opera with no success ("I like opera very much, but opera does not like me"). His imagination seemed to flag. He published his last works in 1929, retired to Lake Tuusula...
...strain of tubercle bacilli taken from human patients by growing them in cattle. The trouble was that the vaccine, now universally known as BCG (for Bacillus of Calmette and Guérin), got a bad name early. The first enthusiasts made exaggerated claims for it, and in the late 1920s, virulent tubercle bacilli were accidentally substituted for BCG in Lübeck, Germany, and 72 children died...
...Hessians. Thuringians and Bavarians fought among themselves but mostly against the Prussians. Under Bismarck the Prussians won, and the Iron Chancellor set up the German Reich that lasted until the defeat in World War I. Germany's first real experiment with democracy was the Weimar Republic of the 1920s. But despite the efforts of men of vision like Friedrich Ebert and Gustav Stresemann. German democracy was splintered from the start by regionalism, factionalism, and, above all, by a rain-forest proliferation of political parties. Then came Hitler...