Word: moms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...infant piglet's life is confused and dangerous, and mom is usually to blame. Some sows eat their young, and many roll on them or trample them to death. Another bad habit of sows is producing more pigs than they can feed properly. The average sow has only eight or ten teats (some of which may not be functioning), and she often farrows as many as 16 pigs. The runts and laggards that don't connect with a functional teat during their early mealtimes are gone pigs. Hunger makes them too weak to compete in later battles...
...their elders. The generation has "won its latchkey." It sees no point or fun in yelling for freedom to do as it pleases, because generally no one keeps it from doing as it pleases. It is not rebellious-either against convention or instruction, the state or fate, Pop or Mom. Toward its parents, it exhibits an indulgent tolerance. As one young New Yorker put it with a shrug: "Why insult the folks...
...time lying on the davenport while his mother read the letters to him. When one began, "Oh, my poor dear boy, how sorry we are that you have to lie there, crippled, not able to move hand or foot . . ." Ed would laugh and say: "Throw that one away, Mom...
...Date with Judy (Sat. 11:30 a.m., ABC-TV) transforms another just-folks radio family into a daytime TV show. The Fosters come equipped with a whimsical father, a lovable but levelheaded Mom, and a lackwit, adolescent son, all working as background for daughter Judy (Pat Crowley). The plot throws Judy in love with an oaf named Oogie, supplies her with boundless opportunities to pout, indulge in temper tantrums and end nearly every scene in a drugstore, where a finger-pointing clerk urges viewers to stock up on Sponsor McKesson & Robbins' products...
Teresa (MGM) is a strange picture, by the usual Hollywood standards. Its hero is an insecure weakling with whom no red-blooded American moviegoer will care to identify himself. Its heavy is that rarely assailed folk heroine, Mom. Its backgrounds (a bombed-out Italian village, a humid Manhattan slum) are as real and painful as a clout on the jaw. Least conventional of all, and the best thing about Teresa, is its heroine, who gives U.S. movies a new kind of personality and performance...