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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...addition to room for risk, says Goodman, a young man needs faith. He must be able to work hard, to lose himself in his work because the community supports him. But this sort of faith (in vocation) is today rare, and most teenagers become either "early-resigned" (those who, though qualified for the rat race, balk at submitting to it) or "early-fatalistic" (those who, underprivileged, never get a chance to get into the rat race...
...year-old than a so-year-old when you're 25"). It was her work in the company that brought her to the attention of Olivier-she was his daughter in The Entertainer, his warmhearted, empty-headed girl last season in Rhinoceros. "Actresses used to be sort of gilded butterflies," says Joan Plowright, "but now we've become a part of life in England...
...doubt, and the flagrant distortion of their qualities and motives may therefore seem all the more reprehensible to moviegoers who hold these serious and important men in memory. Mencken, for example, is portrayed by Gene Kelly as a lip-curling, hat-tilting city-room slicker who talks the sort of typewritten tarradiddle that does less than justice to the rich, organic vocabulary of the author of The American Language...
...nations like the U.S. (where there are only 400 trained midwives) and Canada (where there are none), the midwife is often regarded as a sort of medieval social curiosity, on a par with the fortuneteller. In U.S. obstetrical argot, a clumsy delivery is a "midwife's job." This loss of stature was partly deserved. A generation ago, for example, all Moroccan births were handled by the tribal midwife (habla), whose actions were inspired more by superstition than by science. If the newborn Moroccan infant cried too loudly, the habla sliced the child's thorax...
...Dhagestan maiden was a dozen or so severed male right hands, strung on a thong. Imaginative bloodletting was much admired; Afghanistan's rulers executed prisoners by tying them across the muzzles of cannon (until Western diplomats complained of flying flesh) and the Shah of Persia delightedly invented another sort of extinction: extracting the teeth and hammering them into the skull...