Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though Pamela Cortez returned to her secretarial job shortly after giving birth to Daughter Kimberly, her thoughts stayed at home. As a result, her work suffered. Recalls Cortez: "I went through several baby-sitters trying to find a good one. I worried during the workday and found my mind drifting to my child." But now Cortez finds it much easier to concentrate on her job. Each weekday morning Kimberly, 2, rises at 6:30 and accompanies her mother as she drives to work at Wang Laboratories in Lowell, Mass. Near by, in a former grade school leased by Wang...
MARGARET MEAD: A LIFE by Jane Howard; Simon & Schuster; 527 pages; $19.95 WITH A DAUGHTER'S EYE by Mary Catherine Bateson; Morrow; 242 pages...
...while were subjected to "marathons of conversation, often exhausting." From Samoa to Greenwich Village, it seemed, she was everybody's mother-an irony not lost on Mary Catherine Bateson, now an anthropologist herself, who judged Mead to be "less than fully nurturant" when it came to her own daughter. Bateson expresses bittersweet amusement at her mother's boast that when Baby Cathy was six weeks old, "we let the nurse go and took care of her ourselves for a whole weekend...
...Aristotle had a surefire formula: make love in the north wind to conceive a male child and in the south wind for a girl. Hippocrates had his own prescription-tie a string around the right testicle to stimulate the production of male seed, or the left, if a daughter is sought. Medieval alchemists had an even more exotic recipe for a son: a precoital drink of lion's blood and intercourse under a full moon...
TartufFe is the alias of a trickster who poses as a selfless holy man; he induces a pious bourgeois to part with his money, his house, his daughter's hand in marriage and, ultimately, his most dangerous possession, a cache of incriminating documents left by a friend who has fled into exile. In his infatuation with Tartuffe, the good, decent Orgon alienates almost every member of his household; yet when ruin strikes, they rally loyally to him. The crucial question for every production is whether Orgon (a role Moliere himself played) deserves this fidelity. Is TartufFe an obvious rogue...