Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American housewives today, including those who may sneer at her preachings as silly. Some of those problems are as old as the Fall-problems of loneliness and dissatisfaction. Others spring from the new writ that women should find work and fulfillment outside the traditional confines of the home. Marabel Morgan, by contrast, quotes St. Paul's declaration (Ephesians 6:21): "Wives, be subject to your husbands, as to the Lord." Others may have offered more elegantly reasoned defenses of American family life-as does Arlene Rossen Cardozo in her new book, Woman at Home; still others may be attempting...
Most of the Morgan message is standard to all the pop self-help books that publishers have been churning out ever since Dale Carnegie and Norman Vincent Peale reaped their first millions: Think positively and keep smiling, or as Marabel puts it, "A merry heart helps melt away the troubles." Does the housewife lack goals? "Write out your philosophy of life as a woman." Is it hard to get organized? Make a list of what to do today. "A total woman sets aside time to plan carefully." Also brush the teeth frequently, and use dental floss. "Be touchable and kissable...
Marabel went to Miami on a vacation, stayed on to work for the Campus Crusade for Christ, and met Law Student Charles Morgan Jr. When he graduated in 1964, they married and moved to New York for a year. Says Marabel: "I played wife. It was fun cooking, having the apartment, folding his shirts, doing my little fairy tale stuff. Then we moved back to Miami, where he set up his practice, and he was very involved in his work, and the babies came, and ... I don't know how it happened, but I began...
...crusade to change me," adds Charlie Morgan from another sofa. "It was her life goal, and she worked at it for six years. She didn't have a bit of success, but that didn't discourage...
Friends noticed the difference in the Morgans and asked for advice. Groups were formed, luncheons held. Several of the Miami Dolphins' wives tried the Morgan method. Result: well-publicized bliss. Says Charlie: "It snowballed. At night women would call every half-hour until midnight. I was about to go up the wall...