Word: mother
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mother's Recipe. Communication is not always easy. As more and more East Village hippies have become politically activist yippies-a trend that Fink welcomes as a sign of growing social involvement-they have begun to distrust him and his men. Abbie Hoffman, one of the founders of the Youth International (Yippie) Party, likens Fink's recipe for peace keeping to that of a Jewish mother: "He throws a lot of chicken soup on the problem and hopes it will go away." Yippie agitators calling themselves the Workshop on Tactical Street Action have taken to trying to provoke...
...other ethnic groups, who have not had the double stigma of color and slavery, the Statue of Liberty has been a mother," he said...
...play that at one point the draft dodgers, who have been presented as militantly antiwar, go racially berserk and are about to burn, maim or kill a dozen Negro orphans. Behind the injected element of fashionable social consciousness lies a cornball ro mance about the orphans' surrogate mother (Shirley Jones) and her erratic spouse (Jack Cassidy), who went off to play Hamlet and ended up as a circus clown. Shirley Jones looks decorative, and Cassidy is an inexhaustibly beguiling entertainer, but the scenes they have to play are sentimental postcards in need of falling snow. The trouble is that...
...being published today. Once more the author concerns herself with the domination of the strong by the weak; "they have such incredible staying power," one character laments. Eva is the formless, feckless person who flouts the schemes and designs of subtler minds. At 25, she is an heiress. Her mother died in a plane crash; her father, a homosexual tycoon, was a suicide. Her guardian was her father's partner in business and in bed. He alternately tries to manipulate her for her money or avoid having to confront...
...Mother is Nada Romanov, "a minor but famous writer" who collects lovers. Father is a high-trapeze-act executive, swinging smoothly from one corporation vice-presidency to another. Both are moral and parental failures. But both, like Richard, are victims as well as executioners...