Word: mother
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...career with her stay-at-home dogma? "My husband lets me do what I want to do," she says. "I have canceled speeches whenever my husband thought that I had been away from home too much." Besides, she adds, "when I fill out applications, I put down 'mother' as my occupation." She boasts that she breast-fed every one of her six children and later taught each of them how to read. Says she: "I work all the time. I'm organized. I've learned to budget every minute...
Undaunted, Schlafly ran for Congress in 1970 (she lost). When her role as wife and mother became an issue, she retorted: "My husband Fred says a woman's place is in the house-the U.S. House of Representatives." A similar line was used that same year by another woman politician of considerably different views -Bella Abzug...
Before the auction, thousands of visitors, including the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret, strolled through the exhibition rooms to see the collection. When Sotheby's chairman and chief auctioneer Peter Wilson pounded his small ivory hammer to begin the sale, 400 buyers filled the firm's chandeliered main auction salon; closed-circuit television brought the auction to four smaller rooms and the nearby Westbury Hotel ballroom for the overflow. As Wilson proceeded to knock down one record price after another, the dizzying figures were flashed on an electronic board above him in pounds, U.S. dollars, French francs, Italian...
...Bronx. Timmy Cleary has just returned from the Army, back to the not-so-peaceful home of his parents, John and Nettie. They are a middle--class, heavily Irish family, and like all good families in the theater, they have their problems, ad infinitum. The mother detests the father. The father detests the mother. Their son has very little in the way of respect for either of them. Dad, it seems, is a coffee dealer whose drive for the big time was thwarted by the Depression, an experience that frustrated him to the point of sheer obnoxiousness...
...returned from America, who enjoys the privileged status of a leading intellectual: a maid, a small apartment of his own, even a refrigerator. But he is forbidden to marry the woman of his choice because of her "bad" class background. In "Chairman Mao Is a Rotten Egg," a young mother is virtually overcome by anxiety because her small child is rumored to have repeated a counterrevolutionary slogan picked up on the street from his playmates. K'uai Shih-fu is a common worker who, irritated because he cannot buy fish at the market, is provoked into a small...