Word: mother
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seems that you city-slickers up there in Cambridge could learn a little more about Mother Nature. Crimson sportswriter Robert Sidorsky reported that Big Red fans at the Cornell-Harvard hockey game tied "a rubber chicken" to Petrovek's goal. Well, any self respecting Cornellian could tell you that that chicken was as live as a cow in heat. If Sidorsky can't tell the difference between a rubber chicken and a real one maybe he better come out here to the country for a few days; we would be happy to teach a city boy like him the facts...
...morning when the toast burns and the child is crying. For centuries, men have told their wives that such problems were not very important, but the novelty is to be patronized by other women for "not doing anything really." Kathy Mertz, who enjoyed serving as a Cub Scout den mother in North Barrington, Ill., particularly resented a newly emancipated part-time secretary who periodically called on her to act as chauffeur for her child. Says Mertz: "She kept telling me that I ought to be 'doing something worthwhile'! What I was doing was giving her child care...
...bare bones may give the reader the impression that he has seen this book many times before. Jed Tewksbury is a poor white boy from Dugton, Ala. His daddy is the dashing county drunk who falls down and kills himself " while urinating on his mule. Jed's mother is the pone of the earth. She supports her fatherless boy by working in a cannery. She makes sure he has clean shirts and does his homework. Her dream is to get Jed up and out of Dugton as soon as possible...
Nisbett's book also describes Lorenz's remarkably symbiotic marriage to his wife and collaborator Gretl and relates, in great detail, the studies upon which he based his books and theories. Lorenz, in the course of his work, served as "mother" to a family of goslings, spent apparently interminable hours observing jackdaws, fish and other animals before developing his hypothesis that overcivilized modern man lives in a state of moral decay...
When Bea, married to a printer and the mother of two, returned to work as a data processor, she was offered $2 an hour-a beginner's wage. That was what she had been making four years before. For non-college-educated women, Bea's predicament is not uncommon. According to Louise Kapp Howe, the odds are overwhelming that what such women do is vastly undervalued. To assemble her disquieting portrait of the work life of the average woman, Howe interviewed scores of women, met with unions and management and even took a job as a sales clerk...