Word: childhood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Getaway Money. As Biographer Taylor sees it, Fields's whole life was shaped and distorted by his childhood experiences. "Fields's early grapples with things like hunger, frost, bartenders and police gave him a vast, watchful suspicion of society and its patterns." As a comedian, he appealed to the streak of fundamental pessimism lurking in everybody. In grownups, children and animals he always expected the worst-and he was usually right. Audiences found it uproarious...
...very young man, demobilized after World War I (he faked a birth certificate to join up at 15), Francis Marion Grandstaff could not decide whether to follow his father's profession of medicine or his childhood inclination to music. He solved his dilemma by taking up crime...
Singing & Talking. To her own present position, Margaret Clapp brings more talent than training: she was never a dean like Vassar's President Sarah Blanding or Bryn Mawr's Katharine McBride. But ever since her childhood, when she tried to tag after her two older brothers and sister as they marched off to school, she seemed to know what she wanted to do next. "She was always pretty," says her brother Alfred. "She always had brains, and she could always take care of herself...
...popular, "common sense" notion that well-fed people are most likely to keep healthy is not necessarily true. Recent research shows that the common diseases of childhood are no more prevalent among poorly fed children than among children stuffed with spinach, fruit and fish-oil vitamins. Research also shows that well-fed adults suffer as much as anyone else from the common cold and influenza...
Division Street, unless he could understand a childhood geared to Let Her Fly. In The Man with the Golden Arm, Chicago Novelist Nelson Algren's compassionate understanding of Frankie and his world is the foundation of one of the finest novels so far this year. Readers with queasy stomachs may shrink from an environment in which the unbelievably sordid has become a way of life. They will also come away with some of Algren's own tender concern for his wretched, confused and hopelessly degenerate cast of characters. In that, Writer Algren scores a true novelist...