Word: mama
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John F. Kennedy Jr. since his christening, revealed that, although the picture shows him chomping on a toy rooster, a hand-me-down steam engine from Sister Caroline is actually his favorite possession. Other vital statistics cleared for release: weight-23 lbs.; height-30 in.; vocabulary-"Da-da, Mama and other noises...
...content. In his first reader, the Russian tot is blatantly propagandized, notably in a eulogy of Lenin's love for children. He is urged to keep clean, study hard, tell the truth, feed birds in winter, help old ladies when they fall, and take care of papa when mama is off at her job flying an airplane. But he also studies the lives of ants, bees and squirrels. He is taught how to identify six mushrooms, twelve birds and the tracks of hares, foxes and wolves. Fully one-third of his reader is unadulterated literature-poems by Pushkin, Lermontov...
...Mama was the daughter of a Russian Jewish watchmaker. She grew up to be a beautiful but not great actress who had bad luck with men. Gary's father walked out on them right after his son was born. From the first, Mama knew her son would be the greatest. She took on a bewildering series of jobs so that he might be well dressed and well fed. She designed clothes, read palms, hawked jewelry, ran a tourist hotel. He would be a great violinist, a great actor, a great dancer...
...painful contrivance and slow stages, she got herself and her son out of Russia, across Poland and at long last to France. In succession, Romain failed her as a violinist (his teacher used to hold his hands over his ears when the boy played), as a dancer (Mama took after his homosexual instructor with her cane), and as an actor...
...become an authentic hero as a bomber pilot. Of his entire squadron, only half a dozen came out of the war alive. Admirable sentimentalist that he is, Gary prefers to believe that his mother took care of him. Regularly throughout the war, he had gotten letters from Mama, the one human being who could keep him going. But when he got back to Nice, a captain and the hero his mother had always said he would be, he learned that she had died of diabetes 3½ years before. But before her death, and knowing she was going...