Word: moms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Loyalty is a cardinal virtue with Beverly. Nowhere does she show it more strongly than with her family, particularly with Mama. When she made her debut at La Scala, long a dream of hers and Mama's, she wrote a postcard home that said: "We made it, Mom. You and I." There, in seven words, is the whole story of their remarkable bond...
...dilemmas best, partly because other artists avoided the plight of the "normal" person altogether. The poetry and novels of the post-war period are filled with madmen and dropouts but with few members of the overwhelming nine-to-five majority. Only the playwright has generally found his material in Mom & Dad & Bud & Sis living next door in seeming content with the system, and he has made it his business to expose all the fears and contradictions that lie underneath the complacent enjoyment of material wealth. His method of exposure is almost always the same: the introduction of some moral dilemma...
...longhairs. demanding blacks and all the upheavals of the decade have touched him only as agitated dream shadows on his TV set. His son Nelson, now 13, is still undersized and smallhanded. Home is a cheesy one-family house in a development on the outskirts of West Brewer, Pa. Mom Angstrom is dying; Pop works at Verity Press, where Rabbit finally wound up as a linotype operator...
...threatening look demands an explanation for his son's absence. While Laurent is still standing in awkward silence, his mother enters, sizes up the situation with a glance, and begins to look upset over the impending battle. But the brothers can't keep from chuckling at Laurent's embarrassment, Mom smiles, and finally Dad's anger melts as they all join in laughing together...
...Wylie, but Vipers, he figured, had made the epithet inevitable. "That's the first thing they'll put in my obituary-a woman hater. I certainly was a damned odd one." In fact, Wylie was an early supporter of women's rights. But his description of Mom as "a puerile, rusting, raging creature" did little to dispel the notion that he was indeed a confirmed misogynist. Few facets of society escaped Wylie's wrath over the 50-year span of his literary career. The Princeton-educated iconoclast was a prolific writer of overstated and splenetic books...