Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Conquer the Unconquerable Sir: Just finished reading "Twilight Existence" (TIME, July 28), in which the mother of a feeble-minded child expresses a wish that euthanasia may be legally extended to cover the slaughter of feeble-minded and so-called hopelessly deformed children. . . . Euthanasia is not the solution for this problem...
...restraint throughout that saves the picture from becoming mandlin. Jane Wyman, who has hitherto seemed, to be an actress with partly concealed talents, does a splendid job as the mother, who has prematurely lost all her youth by the death of three children in infancy. Gregory Peck, rather a child's memory of his father than the real thing, does about the best that can be expected in his unsatisfying role. But Claude Jarmans, as the twelve-year-old hero, carries the burden of the film, as well as the acting honors...
...music Georg Büchner's 1834 drama of the French Revolution: he was inspired, he said, by the plot on Hitler's life, and the Nürnberg trials. Einem and his father, trying to escape to England in 1938, were jailed by the Nazis; his mother was imprisoned by the French, as a suspected collaborator...
...Abram Burkhart's farmer-father wanted his son to be a fertilizer salesman. His Mennonite mother prayed that he would enter the ministry. For the Burkhart family of Cumberland County, Pa. the issue was decided once & for all during World War I, when one of young Soldier Burkhart's best friends, who had hoped to be a minister, was killed. Roy made up his mind to enter the church. Today Dr. Roy Burkhart, pastor of the First Community Church of Columbus, Ohio, is the whirring dynamo of the growing community-church movement and an outstanding U.S. churchman...
...cakes, the dropping of a cup, becomes symbolic), readers may extract many meanings or none. Guesses British Critic Cyril Connolly, editor of highbrow Horizon: "And what are these figures, but expressions of a deeper truth, of cycles of spring and winter, youth and age, death and rebirth, of the Mother who must become our enemy if we are to grow...