Word: childhood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like Clarence Day's Life With Father, Bertha Damon's portrait is more serious than the title suggests. It serves in fact as an excellent psychological document, illustrating in vivid elementary terms how childhood influences act on adult character. For as a grownup Author Damon has reacted against the Thoreau-inspired austerity of her grandmother's house and diet by building and remodeling houses, collecting cookbooks. Reacting against Grandma's taboo on pets, Author Damon makes a hobby of cocker puppies and little pigs...
...house of the universe. There in three rooms on Atlantic Avenue, the Society has got the world--or at least enough of it to accommodate a fine, microscopically complete railroad. There the Vag has found the mountain grades, the yards, the freight trains, and the Limiteds of his childhood again--and he sees not just one isolated mile of the "run but the whole thing, hundreds of miniature miles of it. There, too, are the men he loves, the hoggers, the scoop-swingers, the men of the punch, the wipers, the brakies--a score of Uncle Romes enthusiastically puttering around...
...Most important background factor in an individual's chances for a happy marriage is the happiness of his parents. Other favorable auguries: having had a happy childhood, having had firm but not harsh early home discipline, having had little conflict with his parents and strong attachment to them, having had parents who were frank about...
...ears were the reason. Thereupon he went to Plastic Surgeon James Stotter. Dr. Stotter said that 50% of cases such as Philip Shafer's are traceable to bad habits (e. g. wearing one's hat riding on one's ears) or pulling of the ears during childhood, when ear cartilage is soft and pliable. Mr. Shafer recalled that teachers had frequently pulled his ears in elementary school. Since Mr. Shafer's right ear was larger than his left, Dr. Stotter said that he must have had a left-handed teacher. As Plastic Surgeon Stotter prepared...
Esther Forbes's four novels (O Genteel Lady!, Paradise, etc.) have been full of romantic literary tricks. In spite of this they have been eminently successful in drawing a persuasive picture of colonial New England. Descended from pioneer Massachusetts stock, saturated from childhood with tales of colonial history told by her parents, both ardent historians, Author Forbes has a liking for portraying warm-blooded New England women whose passions clashed with Puritan convention...