Word: moms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...writing this letter for my mother, who is deaf and whose sight is failing. Doctors told Mom that she may never hear again and it is only a matter of time before her eyes fail her completely...
Half a million families in over 40 U. S. cities are seeing a free show these days because Pop and Mom punch a General Motors time clock. As it switched over from peace to war production, General Motors switched from old to new methods of talking to its workers. Instead of reviewing their role in the war effort, it revues it. It's Only the Beginning (produced by Soundmasters, Inc.) is a ginger-coated pep talk that points a moral with newsreel excerpts, talks shop in swing time, says "Thanks, boys" with dimpled knees like Peggy Moro...
...Boogie. Four nights a week they broadcast with such assisting talent as Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Edgar Bergen, Jack Benny, Dorothy Lamour and Fanny Brice. Their U.S.-sponsored programs, two over coast-to-coast networks, are Thursday's Wings to Victory, Friday's Hello Mom, Saturday's Soldiers with Wings, Sunday's Wings over the West Coast...
...attack on American mothers (Generation of Vipers, TIME, Jan. 18). God knows that we have enough affairs on the national and international scenes open to criticism (strikes, politics, etc.). Instead of choosing one or more of the innumerable latter, Writer Wylie denounced some of America's proudest possessions: Mom, the common man, the Brooklyn Dodgers, the Star-Spangled Banner. . . . After his lusty vulgarity, civilization-pitying Mr. Wylie dares to quote from Christ's text...
...integrity and self-belief. The way to self-understanding in our present mess, Wylie thinks, is clear-headed criticism, a sample specimen of which he offers in this book. Sometimes his love of a fancy phrase runs away with him, especially in the amusing and one-sided chapter on Mom, but the book was intended to stimulate thought in others rather than to present a positive plan or doctrine, and it fulfills this purpose admirably...