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Alexander Neill's father was a strict Scottish schoolmaster, who used to spank his children rather repetitiously. Young Neill developed a fear of his father that haunted him until early manhood. Years later, when he began studying child psychology, he decided to found a school of his own, to...
"The world political situation has not improved. ... [But] I am convinced that no responsible statesman in any country can, or does, contemplate the prospect of war." For the immediate future Lie was probably right; but Lake Success was haunted by the fear that a fateful day would come when Andrei...
But the next day Evita, usually tardy, was ready ahead of time, dressed appropriately in ankle-length black dress and long black cape, for her audience with Pope Pius XII. The Pope talked to her for exactly the customary 30 minutes, had kind words for her husband's concern...
In Forest Hills, N.Y., Violinist Stephan Hero, having settled his two children in his own folks' home, asked for and got police protection against "possible acts of reprisal." He had flown them from the Beverly Hills (Calif.) home of his father-in-law, Pianist Jose Iturbi, who used to...
The opening scenes, haunted with grimly exaggerated sounds of wind, in the desolate mid-marsh graveyard where Pip first meets the convict, are an achievement in romantic terror; the vast, dark,dust-ridden rooms in which Miss Havisham holds court in her rotting wedding dress are presented with the same...