Word: mother
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...commentary on the violent age in which we live was reflected in the question of our six-year-old daughter, while watching the funeral of Eisenhower. She asked: "Mother, who shot...
...Last summer I was asked, as a consultant, to see a child with chronic lead poisoning. The pediatricians of our staff were speculating about the source of the lead and supplied the pat answer of paint chips, which the child's mother agreed she saw him eating. The pediatricians' answer agrees with all of the literature. But the literature, including your article "Deadly Lead in Children" [April 4], does not contain one of the most likely sources of today's lead poisoning in children...
About our case of lead poisoning last summer, the child's mother finally recalled that she had also seen him eating putty which was cracking off the window frames, and the candy sticks of putty were probably a lot handier and tastier than paint chips...
...defiling; in failing to see how much more complicated social problems are than you blindly assume; in acting out of an ignorance for which idealism is no excuse, and a hysteria for which youth is no defense. "Understanding"? You don't even understand that when you call me a "mother----" you are projecting your unresolved incestuous wishes onto me. The technical name for such projection, in advanced form, is paranoia...
...this small, strangely schizophrenic novel literally becomes the colonel's own sentences, his semifictional forays into his own Aussie boyhood during the '20s and '30s. Gingerly he launches into an account of life with his upper-class Sydney family: a barrister father, a tennis-playing mother, "unforgettable-character" grandparents, a funny, Christian Science-spouting sister. The result is a tender exercise in memory quite touching in its own right. Even the Chinese interrogator soaks it all up with pleasure. Then he uses it in a hyperbolic scene that involves hypnotizing the colonel and forcing him to watch...