Word: moms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mom Is Still a Viper...
...Mom, this is something I want you or Dad to do quick. They are mixing the niggers in the same barracks with us. If everyone's parents write their Congressmen to ask for something to be done about it, it will. Mom, please don't let me down. Quick...
Instead of blaming the adolescents themselves, or their parents* (who often wallow in feelings of guilt about failing their children), or even the communities in which they live, Dr. Flanagan blames a breakdown in communication. "Too often," he said, "Mom doesn't talk to Pop, or Pop doesn't talk to Mom, and neither talks to Junior." What should they talk about? For one thing, tension is a common ingredient in modern life, said Dr. Flanagan, so both parents and adolescents should talk about whatever is eating them. More specifically, youths in the limbo between childhood and adulthood...
...songwriters are just as convinced as visiting European anthropologists that the U.S. vibrates to the theme of "Mom," so songwriters waste little time exploring the sentimental possibilities of Dad.* Last month, nonetheless, Victor picked up a sugary little number called Oh! My Papa, which had been written for a Swiss musical comedy, and gave it to Crooner Eddie Fisher. For good measure it threw in a lush accompaniment, including a gaudy trumpet obbligato. Sample lyric...
...Manhattan's Dominique France, in its Christmas catalogue of high-priced haberdashery and notions, offered some helpful shopping hints for "other gift suggestions" not available there. "For Dad: a Wheeler Sun Lounge, 65-footer [yacht], $165.000. For Mom: a sable-lined reversible polo coat from Maximilian, $45,000. For mother-in-law: an Air France ticket to Viet Nam (French Indo-China...