Word: moms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...habit, Social Worker Herbert Barish and Presbyterian Minister Edward Brown began playing detective on the streets of Manhattan's Lower East Side. After 18 months, they are satisfied that they have found the villain: she is that pillar of American culture known to every American boy as Mom...
...Epidemic. Barish and Brown got onto Mom's trail because the tranquilizers being handed out at Brown's East Side Narcotics Center were not helping addicts to fight the seething anxieties of withdrawal. The two men soon learned that the once potent medicine had not suddenly gone sour; the addicts' mothers were either not giving their boys enough of the tranquilizers or were flushing the pills right down the toilet...
...this suggests that narcotics workers are face-to-face with a second monkey on the addict's back. Sorrowfully, Brown admits to being stumped on the problem of prying Mom loose. He tried group therapy to get the mothers interested in their sons' problems, admits it was "a disaster-all they did was feel sorry for themselves." Now he is campaigning to have the sons leave home, but he finds Mom just as tough a campaigner. A few weeks ago, one mother searched through more than 50 rooming houses on Manhattan's 14th Street until she turned...
...there just the hint of a double chin? It wouldn't be surprising, for Monaco's Princess Grace is 35. But even when Mom becomes a full-fledged matron catching the more mature gazes, the family will still have a girl to turn younger heads. Arriving in the U.S. for a kinsfolk wedding, eight-year-old Princess Caroline flashed a cool smile of her own, asked, "Mummy, will you let me be an actress when I grow up?" Murmured Mummy, who says she'll never make another film herself, "You're already an actress, darling...
...nicest, respectively, dogs in the world, so huge that only their clawed paws are seen on camera. There was Pookie, a rubber-faced lion puppet, and, as always, corn as high as pie-in-the-eye. But once again it was a big click. Kids began strong-arming Mom into having dinner early or late, but not when Soup's on. And the result was that now 22% of his audience are adults...