Word: momism
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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...
Living-1948 (Sun. 4:35 p.m., NBC). Topic: "Momism," the problem of the U.S. apron strings...
...Momism," of both the clinging and domineering varieties, is a widespread, "hereditary" U.S. disease, says Dr. Strecker, for which the nation is paying in general immaturity. "Instead of censuring mom for her shortcomings, we encourage her with misplaced adoration...