Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some of the patients on whom Dr. Bargen tried methylcellulose had taken, as they said, "barrels of laxatives," and were still constipated. One 6g-year-old woman had been taking daily doses as long as she could remember. A girl of 19, her mother testified, had taken a laxative nearly every day since early childhood. Methylcellulose straightened them...
...Bowles scores cleanly with his minor characters: Arab pimps and prostitutes, French officers in garrison towns, a stupidly tiresome pair of tourists-mother & son. Above all, The Sheltering Sky is drenched with a fine sense of place, and it sketches Arab towns and the Sahara itself with sharp sureness. Bowles may have missed the center of the target with his central characters, but he has given them a supporting cast and an exciting setting that a good many more practiced novelists can honestly envy...
Morton, however, is very successful in his defense of the contemplative vocation and in his scorn for the modern Godless civilization. "The Quickening of St. John the Baptist" likens the members of a cloistered order to the unborn Baptist waiting in his mother's womb for the coming of Christ's mother, Mary, with the announcement of the anticipated birth of God, the Son. The speechless Trappists and Carmelites are "sealed in the dark and waiting to be born;" they are the sentinels that the world must post to hear "the first far drums of Christ...
...actress, appears convincingly confused as she depicts the feelings of the subjugated bourgeoise. Excellent support is given the stars by the tender performance of Jean Debucourt as the father of the school boy, by the well portrayed shock and righteous indignation of Denise Grey as the young bride's mother...
...Diamond and his colleagues had long wondered why so many mixed-blood babies are ever born alive. "Theoretically, most of them should have been destroyed in the uterus, but this rarely happened. There must be something in the mother's blood," he reasoned, "which protected her baby until it was born...