Word: momism
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Sarah Palin became a reflective postscript to the Bush presidency. W.'s compassionate conservatism segued into Palin's hockey-momism--both deceptive shrouds for a disinterested, narrow-minded belief system and jingoistic worldview. She emerged as the standard bearer of empty-vessel politics, which, following our next era of national complacency, may triumphantly return...
...mother's job has expanded to include managing a packed schedule of child-enhancement activities. In their new book The Mommy Myth, Susan Douglas, a professor of communication studies at the University of Michigan, and Meredith Michaels, who teaches philosophy at Smith College, label the phenomenon the New Momism. Nowadays, they write, our culture insists that "to be a remotely decent mother, a woman has to devote her entire physical, psychological, emotional, and intellectual being, 24/7, to her children." It's a standard of success that's "impossible to meet," they argue. But that sure doesn't stop women from...
...should be confused by The Manchurian Candidate today. Axelrod's urbane cynicism plays like aces Wilde. Frankenheimer's aptly flashy technique is now a part of Hollywood's visual vocabulary. The performances are daring and assured, especially Lansbury's holy terror of Momism and Harvey's snide, pathetic pawn, brainwashed by both KGB AND CIA. And the movie's theory of endemic political corruption, which read as seditious in 1962, now feels like the sweet breath of reason. Few movies attempt to anatomize a whole sick society, to dissect the mortal betrayals of country, friend, lover and family; fewer films...
Died. Philip Wylie, 69, the polemicist-novelist who coined the term "momism" in Generation of Vipers, his 1942 best-selling harangue against American mores; of heart disease; in Miami. "I didn't expect to become known for the rest of my life as a woman hater," said Wylie, but Vipers, he figured, had made the epithet inevitable. "That's the first thing they'll put in my obituary-a woman hater. I certainly was a damned odd one." In fact, Wylie was an early supporter of women's rights. But his description...
Died. Spring Byington, 84, the durable character actress whose sympathetic screen portrayals contradicted Philip Wylie's image of pernicious momism; of cancer; in Hollywood. "Why should I object to playing mothers all the time on the screen?'' Miss Byington once asked. "Mothers scheme and plan and love with all the versatility of a three-ring circus." Though her maternal roles included Marmee in the 1933 screen classic Little Women and Mickey Rooney's all-knowing mom in the first Andy Hardy film, she reached the zenith of her career in the mid-1950s as the fluttery...