Word: childhood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...daughter's deeds and save his family's honor. His wife and his two other daughters took their cart and walked off into the countryside. In the ghetto, the arrests continued. Among the Jews seized was Lazzaro Anticoli, one of the Black Panther's childhood friends. In prison, so goes the story, he cut himself, and with his finger dipped in his own blood wrote on the wall of his cell: "My name is Lazzaro Anticoli, arrested by the Black Panther. If I do not see my family again, avenge...
Indeed, the one terrible enemy of promise that Connolly ignores is the third degree to which the "artist" is subjected today by lovers of the arts such as Connolly himself. A glaring spotlight, directed by dogmatic esthetes, assures the artist of his isolation and triumphantly detects his childhood scars and disfiguring pockmarks. Esthetic policemen suspiciously sniff his every breath and lay down chalk lines which they order him to follow; he is never released, only paroled. A similar attitude toward a baker would alone be enough to ruin any promise of good bread...
...hero of Erostratus expresses his morbid hatred of his fellows through a completely senseless murder. The longest and most ambitious story is The Childhood of a Leader. This is Sartre's cold dissection of a French industrialist's son, showing how his social and sexual inadequacies led him to the assuagements of anti-Semitism and a superpatriotism...
Then she ran through the story of her life. It is mostly a record of academic achievements and in almost all of them she has been something of a pioneer. Miss Cam was born 63 years ago in Essex County, England. "I think the most unusual thing about my childhood was that I had no formal schooling. I was one of nine children. My mother came from an Oxford background, and my father was a parson, and together they educated us all. I tried three times to get into Oxford by passing the 'locals' but couldn't. They did, however...
...home-run-hitting John Mize might never have been a big leaguer but for Doc Hyland. The Cincinnati Reds passed him up 13 years ago when another doctor discovered an old pelvic injury (the result of riding mules bareback in his Georgia childhood). Doc Hyland operated and Big John did the rest...