Word: momism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Edward Adam Strecker, 72, emeritus professor of psychiatry at the medical school of the University of Pennsylvania, expert on behavior disorders of children, author, whose 1946 study Their Mothers' Sons examined the U.S.'s "mom-archie" society, attributed much mental disease to "momism"; of lung cancer; in Philadelphia. In Strecker's lexicon, a "Mom" was not a mother. "Mom is a maternal parent who fails to prepare her offspring emotionally for living a productive adult life on an adult social plane. A Mom does not untie the emotional apron string," and the result is an immature...
Such treatment was rougher than Liberace has received at the hands of most U.S. newssheets-even the toughest Americans have been softened by personal contact with the Liberace charm-and he momentarily lost his smile. "To mention Momism, to refer to my love for my mother as if it were Communism or Naziism, is something I can't imagine anyone in his right mind would do," he snapped. Then recovering his benign calm. Liberace purred: "Everyone has to expect a certain number of nonbelievers, and even enemies. I suppose that's why they shot Abraham Lincoln and crucified...
...lapels ("It cost $400"), Pianist Wladziu Valentino Liberace, 36, sailed for a six-week concert tour of Europe with 34 pieces of luggage including 60 complete changes of costume plus a custom-made $15,000 glass-topped piano. Meanwhile, Author Philip (Generation of Vipers) Wylie, unregenerate enemy of "momism" and of Liberace as "mom's darling boy," muttered darkly that Liberace is "a superannuated Little Lord Fauntleroy. When he came to Miami, I was going to round up every guy with any masculinity, and we were going to stone that guy to death with marshmallows...
Mother and Son, by Ivy Compton-Burnett, showed the aging (63) British novelist near the top of her brilliant form. She dealt with the tyranny of Momism, English upper-class variety, with the simple, brilliant device that has served her during 15 novels: human speech...
...bust ("high admissions"), Humphrey Bogart was explaining why his latest movie, The Desperate Hours, was not a box-office bonanza: "Maybe it was because of the dignity label on the film-they didn't let people know it was a gangster film. Maybe it's because of momism these days, and no one cares if pop is in danger of having his head bashed...