Word: moms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dear Mom . . . Unlike their elders, child writers waste few words. "Great stacks of books," says Smith, "have been written by people in an effort to explain why Rome fell ... yet none of them ever really arrived at a more sensible answer than that contained in a penciled manuscript unearthed in Greenwich, Conn, one day in 1948. It was the work of a nine-year-old boy and follows...
...letter from camp can be equally businesslike ("Dear Mom: If we do not write a letter home today we cannot have any lunch-Very Truly Yours Don"). Child authors like to get briskly to the point-whether they are writing a poem...
...CAVE New Orleans Sir: I was disgusted by the treatment accorded to Liberace by the British press. Incidentally we like our men to be hairy, heavy, noisy, predatory, single-minded - a return to the caveman; the average man (Dagwood or anyone's Pop) is merely tolerated. Liking Mom is an admission of weakness. When are we going to grow up? MARION PALMER Amityville...
Spivs & Mistresses. Since Author Wilson's implicit tenet is that to know people is to loathe them, the people closest to Gerald are farthest from him. His Danish wife is an octupal mom rich in bloodcurdling whimsy who speaks Teutonically fractured English. Their best years together have been the long ones they have spent apart. Gerald's only daughter has married a slack-spirited intellectual snob. His younger son is a BBC television personality whose public pitch is heart-tugging interviews with the wronged; privately, he is enamored of a blackmailing, homosexual spiv. Gerald's elder...
...stands of a Mexican bull ring, and has them re-fight the few past moments of truth in their lives. What dies in the ring is flesh; what has already perished in the stands is hope, mind and spirit. Among the fatally gored spectators: an icy arch-mom, the "chaste virginal mother of three"; her husband, a man who has transferred what little emotional-venture capital he once had into 3% matrimonial bonds; their grandson, a mobile Davy Crockett brat; a one-shot bohemian playwright who carries a pants pocket he once tore from Ty Cobb's uniform...