Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...makes the creation of works of the highest art his sole and supreme business in life needs before all things a woman to be his servant, his mother, his nurse, his devotee, his housekeeper, and not at all necessarily his bedfellow. . . . As Watts could paint and sculpt in the grand manner as easily as other men can walk or talk, he must be ranked as one of the most fortunate of mortals and yet the most dependent on women...
...Terry, when he was a middleaged, lukewarm gentleman and she an actress with a vocation as irresistible as his own. On the only occasion on which Ellen mentioned it to me, she described how, when she was only Watts' model, she came home one day and informed her mother triumphantly that she was going to have a baby.. Watts had kissed her-and she was young enough to believe that babies were the result of kisses. For both of them the marriage was an entirely negligible episode which left no ill feeling...
...tells of an attractive, broke widow who has been living in gay, sumptuous sin with a wartime British Cabinet Minister. Then her priggish, pinko 17-year-old son (well played by Dick Van Patten) comes home after five years at school in Canada. He forces his mother to choose between him and her lover and (possibly because a show must keep going until 11 o'clock) she chooses the son. But by 11 o'clock the son has decidedly mellowed and the lovers have arranged to be married...
District Attorney Brown has plenty of ammunition for a showdown between law and organized abortion. A grand jury has indicted a doctor charged with the Christmas-Day murder of a mother of two. Brown has gathered as witnesses former customers whose names San Francisco newspapers have promised to withhold. He is also setting traps for "respectable" doctors who send their patients to the abortion milla or do unreported "repair work" after complications...
...that drove many a Jap to suicide and many a G.I. into the mental ward, only one Okinawan cracked up.-Psychiatrist Moloney, in the current Psychiatry, jumped to a long conclusion. He figured that Okinawans get a good psychological start in life. Until an Okinawan baby is three, his mother 1) breast feeds him; 2) postpones any toilet training; 3) carries him, papoose-like, while she works. Corporal punishment is almost unknown. By the time the Okinawan is five, says Moloney, he has such a sense of security that his mental foundation is sturdy enough to survive catastrophe...