Word: mother
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They also shared an insatiable desire for self-improvement that went far beyond the limits of Plains. "We studied books on the great artists, on the great operas and music appreciation. And we studied those things together," Rosalynn recalls, with a measure of pride. "One Christmas, Jimmy asked his mother for the complete works of Shakespeare, and we memorized some Shakespeare. It was a very fulfilling life. I could never sit and drink coffee and talk about babies and clothes." Even their family vacations reflected the meticulous Carter planning and the need to accomplish worthwhile goals. "When we decided...
...Journalist Oriana Fallaci has turned philosopher-novelist. Her new book, Letter to a Child Never Born, to be published in English next month by Simon & Schuster, is the monologue of a nameless, husbandless professional delivered to her unborn child. The baby dies in the womb, but not before its mother probes her own motives for childbearing and the infant's right to be born. "This is a story about a doubt, the biggest of all-whether or not to bring a human being into the world," says Fallaci, 46. Is the iconoclast revealing her own sphinxlike self? Hardly. According...
...series stretches from Kinte's African boyhood through his offspring's torturous rise from slavery in America. Unglamorized and at times disturbingly stark, Roots features Cicely Tyson as Kinte's mother, Maya Angelou as his grandmother, John Amos as Kinte in middle age, and Ben Vereen as his grandson. Kinte as a teenager will be portrayed by LeVar Burton, 19, a U.S.C. sophomore and acting novice. To give the somber story line additional star power, such big names as Lorne Greene, Lloyd Bridges, Chuck Connors, O.J. Simpson, Leslie Uggams and Doug McClure will appear in small roles...
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...mind belonged to the classics but her emotions owed much to 19th century romanticism, especially the aspect that substituted the sufferings of the artist for the anguish of the martyr. Simone was born into the French upper-middle class in 1909. Her father-a physician-and her mother had Jewish backgrounds, though they observed no religious ritual or custom. The child never regarded herself as a Jew. Later she rejected the God of the Old Testament as the sanctioner of cruelty and declared, instead, that her tradition was Christian, French and Hellenic. She also regretted having been born female...