Word: mother
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Correspondent John Tompkins, it was a troubling journey. "As a child," he explains, "I used to spend my summers in Goldsboro, a small town just across the river from Three Mile Island, and I remember roaming the island in search of Indian arrowheads and swimming from its shores. My mother, sister and other relatives still live in the area. For the first time in years, I was gazing at Three Mile again, sensing now more than just its mystery. For the first time the island, with its cooling towers, was ominous and frightening-something it had never been before...
...have come through difficult times. Let your loving hand be on us," Carter said. At another table, Brzezinski leaned over to the President's mother. "You and I know that he means it," he said. For Brzezinski, one of the marvels of the day was the fact that he, only a few months ago accused of antiSemitism, was constantly being asked to pose for pictures with rabbis. Peace, concluded Brzezinski, was amazing...
...schizophrenia, the most disabling and puzzling of mental illnesses. There are dozens of contending theories to explain it. The leading behavioral one derives from Anthropologist Gregory Bateson's concept of the double bind, which holds that schizophrenia arises from a prolonged dose of conflicting instructions, as, say, when a mother tells a child not to eat sweets, yet is constantly rewarding it with candy. But studies of identical twins and adopted children by Biochemist Seymour Kety strongly suggest a genetic base for schizophrenia. According to Kety, the flaw, contained in the cells' DNA, the master genetic molecules, may possibly...
...last number was The Stars and Stripes Forever, and that seemed just fine with the Chinese. Then Ozawa circled the oval floor along with his mother and an ever growing parade of musicians. Next morning almost the whole Peking Philharmonic showed up at the airport to say goodbye with gifts and mementos. Several private farewells ended in tears. Ozawa led his troops onto the 747. The final glimpse of the Americans must have made the Peking players smile. Pan Am printed the name CHINA CLIPPER on the sides in Chinese characters but, language misunderstandings being what they are, the sign...
...overall plan of my life I budget for that." As a novelist, Hermitage is intrigued by her economics of the heart. As a man, he is smitten with a case of middle-age rut: He settles into a daily routine: a soul-searching chat with the dying mother, a brisk workout in bed with the daughter, and then back to the writing table and the new Hermitage novel...