Word: cribbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Psychologists and toy manufacturers have between them devised a bewildering variety of educational toys for the crib and playroom. But the way to fire a youngster's intelligence and imagination, according to a three-year study recently finished in Germany, is to put him in a large, low-ceilinged room painted in his favorite color...
Looking for other ways to stimulate the learning process of babies, Ertel's team designed a Plexiglas crib. Here, too, according to the institute, the results were remarkable. The 38 infants who were raised in the transparent cribs were better able to see what was going on around them and to interact with it. Their mental development was remarkably faster than that of a control group. At 18 months, children in the experimental group were measurably more intelligent than two-year-olds who had been confined to traditional cribs...
...when most babies are active and curious, Oliver Clark lay motionless in his crib, indifferent to his surroundings and gasping from pneumonia that he could not seem to shake. Oliver's prospects for active toddlerhood hardly improved when doctors discovered his problem: a hole in the wall separating the two ventricles, or pumping chambers, of his heart. Oliver was just a year old. Usually such patients do not undergo conventional open-heart surgery until they are at least two, and in the interim normal development may be seriously retarded. In Oliver's case, a team of surgeons...
Which is lucky--the play itself is actually nothing to rave about. Forty-five minutes long, it takes place entirely inside a baby's crib in Harlem. The social message is about what you'd expect, and one character even has to come right out and any it: "Too many babies are bitten every day!" ("Sometimes I'm afraid I'm going to start laughing at that line," said Kit Williams, who plays the baby and at that point is waiting with amazing realism. "It reminds me of a Unicef ad or something.") The tragic parts of the play tend...
...confined not only to her home perctnets but to certain sectors of the media as well. The congresswoman played up to television and generally ignored radio and the newspapers. On Election Night, the quickest way to find out the vote total was to pick up the Channel 5 crib sheet or call Moakley headquarters Hicks's campaign strategists were holed up in a locked cloak room, counting tally sheets brought in periodically from the polls...