Word: mother
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Where is Bond now, ten years later? He still appears on talk shows and at other engagements. He's still plugging in the state legislature, operating--now as a state senator--out of an office in the basement of his mother's house. And he hasn't lost his maverick style: Bond bitterly opposed Carter's nomination during the primaries. He's also retained his ties to the civil rights and anti-poverty movements of the '60s. He helped found the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee by chairing two Southern activist groups...
...young black growing up in the Bottom in Knoxville, Tenn., I never knew how deprived I was to have to sleep in the same room with my two brothers, mother and grandmother until sociologists and urbanologists informed me later. I didn't realize it was primitive to have to heat water on a coal stove for my Saturday night bath and to have to use the back-porch toilet until I was grown. Yet I feel lucky when I see many of today's youngsters leave their modern, publicly financed housing projects not realizing what respect, love, compassion...
...guitarist; he tearfully told how he had "been with Elvis all day. Just this afternoon I shaved his sideburns. It was the least I could do." Even today, souvenir hunters pull blades of grass from the lawn around the mausoleum housing the coffins of Elvis and his mother, who died in 1958. One night police arrested three men for trespassing on cemetery grounds. Alarmed, Presley's lawyers and his father Vernon are seeking city permission to move the remains of Elvis and his mother for reburial behind the secure walls of the mansion in which Presley secluded himself...
...GRANDMOTHER used to read Ring Lardner's short stories aloud at the dinner table to my mother and her brother when they were little. She received, I am told, the kind of response most children give their parents when they try to share something they think is funny at the dinner table--mostly a polite laugh or two, but my grandmother loved Lardner, and somehow the dinner table readings remain implanted fondly in her daughter's memory...
Morrison's protagonist is also called Macon Dead-grandson of the freed slave. He is nicknamed Milkman because his mother suckled him until he was almost tall enough for his feet to touch the floor. Yet he remains starved as a child for the heritage his silent family cannot or will not provide. His one wish is to fly. "To have to live without that single gift saddened him and left his imagination so bereft that he appeared dull." At twelve, he meets an outcast aunt, Pilate Dead, who fills the role of tribal storyteller. She tells...