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...black "mammy." Then she learns that the trusted mammy has just strangled her own newborn baby and tossed it into a roadside ditch. Even in the stories where the meaning is caught in a web of nuance, there are. still revelations. A woman determinedly denies her love to her stepchild with the noble but misguided intent of preserving the child's love for his real mother; she ends by alienating the child from both. Enemies, a study of the egoism of old age, suggests that the old relish nothing so much as the death of fellow oldsters...
From the starveling stepchild of industry, scientific experimentation has become an industry in itself−perhaps the key industry. By constantly creating new products, and thus new markets, research has added a dynamic new force to the economy to help keep the boom rolling. Once industries competed for a market that seemed clearly limited by consumers' needs, and the basic needs varied little from decade to decade. Periodically, the needs were so nearly filled that the market and industrial activity declined. In the age of research, industries compete constantly to create new needs, expand their markets and increase production...
Your April 23 piece on Mukyokai (the "nonchurch" movement) was the more interesting because it is a stepchild of New England influence which owes much to Amherst College. Recently I have discovered that Kanzo Uchimura, the founder of Mukyokai, was sent to Amherst on the introduction and strong urging of Joseph Hardy Nee-sima (1843-1890), the first Japanese graduate of a Western institution of higher learning (Amherst 1870), after he had escaped from "closed" Japan six years previously. Neesima came back to found Doshisha University where there have been Amherst men on the faculty ever since except...
...farmlands that worried the Republicans and encouraged the Democrats to predict a "green uprising" in their favor in next year's elections. Minnesota's Democratic Governor Orville Freeman struck his party's keynote when he said that the Eisenhower Administration considered farming to be a stepchild of little importance in an otherwise prosperous economy...
...Malone as well as City Hospital, "where life begins and ends . . . where around the clock, 24 hours a day, men and women are dedicated to the war against suffering and pain." There is even room for a touch of slapstick. On CBS's Professional Father, the psychologist, that stepchild of medicine, is considered a figure...