Word: momism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just like the famous Collyer brothers, who in 1947 were found dead in a junk-filled house in uptown Manhattan). Why, asks Author Davenport, did devoted brothers of good family and good education die in squalor and madness when they had scads of money in the bank? The answer: Momism. Old Grandma Holt dominated her married son, his gentle wife and their two young sons. Just as daddy is about to break from the Milquetoast mold, he is kicked in the head by a horse and killed. By the time the boys are freed by Grandma's own death...
What is the matter with these students? ... If I did not get up for mine (a college grad), he would not eat until noon.'Why blame Momism and not world tension or commercialism...
Commenting on this musical momism, the New York Herald Tribune's Radio & TV Columnist John Crosby wrote: "Sometimes, a man wonders . . . whether the women of this fair land are people or whether some other designation ought to be given them - say, plips - to distinguish them from the rest...
...news of this book is that splenetic Philip Wylie has 1) stopped harping on Momism and sexual frigidity as the great enemies of the U.S., and 2) is now banging away at U.S. apathy in the face of the thermonuclear bomb. The heroes and heroines of Tomorrow are much the same as those in his previous polemics (e.g., Generation of Vipers, Night Unto Night). But where formerly they cried for a decrease in sexual pretense, they are now clamoring for an increase in Civil Defense...