Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those rabbits. Mouth open, one paw up, great big eyes, little impressionists running all over the theatre. Take one home in your pocket. What if that sissy, Bambi, is a bore? What if mother-love, the Cruelty of Man, the Landlord of the Forest, and other miscellaneous nineteenth century melodrama are overdone until they become a lush mush? These are Disney's incorrigible faults, but they are well worth suffering or sleeping through for a glimpse of a lop-cared bunny yelling like hell as he slides...
...efficient desks. The days of youth conferences, with their headquarters in PBH seemed gone. Where the chairman of the speakers' committee, a German-class acquaintance of Vag's used to recruit students for discussions of foreign policy, controversies over the latest style hat now rage. Just then another mother entered with her child. "Pardon me, but could you tell me where you are going?" he asked as politely as he could. "Why, yes, I am taking my child to the Phillips Brooks House nursery...
Luckless Lover. Hugo's father was one of Napoleon's generals. Victor's infancy was full of the clash of swords. But the infant Hugo was not impressed by Bonaparte. Under the influence of his strong-willed mother, who despised her warrior husband, Victor became a Royalist. Father Hugo raged. But Mother Hugo got even by letting the little Hugos romp with their "godfather," her Royalist lover, General La Horie...
...Mother Hugo regarded Waterloo as a personal triumph. So did Victor, but he was already engrossed in literary matters. At 14 he had translated much of Virgil, was composing "poems in every form, odes, satires, elegies." At 15 he carried off one of the French Academy's poetry prizes against the best poets of France. Secretary of the Academy Raynouard sent him "a few hexameters" of praise. King Louis XVIII gave him a purse of 500 francs. The great author and statesman Chateaubriand called him "the sublime child," received young Hugo in his bath, read him "huge sections...
...Mother Hugo dominated Victor so strongly that when he fell in love with Adèle Foucher, his mother refused to allow them to be engaged. Through years of unofficial engagement, Victor poured out his inhibited heart to her in verse. Adele complained that she did not understand poetry. "Your soul understands poetry," said Hugo. Soon after his mother died, Victor married Adèle. In seven years she bore him five children...