Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...North Africa the happy trio is joined by Mrs. Lyle and her "pale and simple" son Eric who alternates between sleeping with his dominating mother and stealing from his fellow travelers. When Port dies from typhoid in a likely French Arab outpost, Kit wanders off into the desert where she is taken in by two Arab traveling salesmen whose actions prove that traveling salesman are the same the world over. Kit finally escapes from her harem when she finds that her Arab lover has to spend a few nights with some of his other wives. She then takes up with...
...life. But The Bicycle Thief is oddly static. Events move predictably and almost mechanically. Each small experience of the distraught hero is meticulously rounded and forced in sentiment, character coloring and social comment.Even the minor movements of the actors-the boy's tumble on a rainy street, the mother's fingering of her cheek-appear overrehearsed...
Presentation to Moors Hall of a painting of Maria Buckminster, great-grand -mother of Moors, was announced by President Jordan. Donor of the painting was Thomas D. Cabot '19, nephew of Moors and a Radcliffe trustee...
Following Moors' speech dedicating the new building, which he built in honor of his mother, Mary Buckminster Moors, carol selections by the Radcliffe Choral Society concluded the program...
...Radcliffe girl, wearing a man's shirt and have a problem, either. She said that she was always fighting with her mother because whenever she had a date her mother wanted her to help with the dishes. At the doctor's suggestion, the girl played the mother, and accused her daughter (herself) of many wanted things, among which was "always reading the CRIMSON when I ask you to help...