Word: breasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ball of womb-symbols, erotic fantasies and thwarted infantile greed. Of this last, "traces . . . remained in [Freud's] later life in the form of slightly undue anxiety about catching trains." This is perhaps an understatement: Freud liked to be on the platform a good hour before the symbolic breast, pulled...
...little boy found encouragement in these stimulation factors. But he found far more (as psychoanalysts see it) in being breast-fed by a doting mother. "A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother," he wrote, "keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror, that confidence of success that often induces real success...
...Ziegfeld show. But Ziegfeld dies, Bungalow is shelved, and Olga develops cancer. While her life is ebbing, Tightpants has to keep his upper lip stiff and accompany two comedians "in a battle with lemon meringue pies." Tears pour from the stone Madonna's eyes, her breast turns red with grief. When Olga goes to Heaven the Madonna stops crying and turns "to purest white...
...Englander followed them, Portland persisted in developing a tone of its own. In 1851, for instance, the stumps in downtown streets were whitewashed to keep late (and often unsteady) pedestrians from tripping over them. An early Portland matron startled the populace with a carriage robe made of the breast feathers of 144 canvasback ducks. And Portland's pioneer St. Charles Hotel boasted a lock on every door and a hand-knitted wrapper on every chamber...
...also his character." The real battle, unseen from the outside, is internal, where "you labor, you wage and combat, settle scores, remember insults, fight, reply, deny, blab, denounce, triumph, outwit, overcome, vindicate, cry, persist, absolve, die and rise again. All by yourself! Where is everybody? Inside your breast and skin...