Word: mother
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...revised Amy Vanderbilt's Complete Book of Etiquette, nothing of the sedate Vere de Vere clings to Baldrige. She has been charging full blast most of her life. She approaches manners from the perspective of a working woman who did not marry until she was 35, a mother of two, an executive feminist who wears black dresses and pearls, and head of her own Manhattan public relations firm, Letitia Baldrige Enterprises, Inc. At 51 she serves on the board of directors of three companies (the New York Bank for Savings, Dean Witter Reynolds Inc., and Outlet Co. of Providence...
...well behaved young girl goes to public dances only when properly chaperoned and to a private dance with her mother or else accompanied by her maid, who waits for her the entire evening in the dressing room...
...Black Panthers, grabbed the first interviews with Abbie Hoffman on the lam and Bill and Emily Harris in jail, found environmental horrors lurking in microwave ovens, drinking water and aerosol cans, and helped reopen the case of Peter Reilly, the young Connecticut man unjustly convicted of killing his mother. The magazine's last-page "Final Tribute" column was the last, often eloquent word on such endangered species as the country general store, George Wallace and, in the current issue, the Ford Pinto...
...inhabitants is crucial: things could not go wrong the way they do in the presence of prying neighbors. Also necessary is a large quantity of cement, an empty trunk in the basement and, later, a sledgehammer. Most important is the question of motivation. Faced with the fact of their mother's corpse and the fear of being dispersed as orphans by the authorities, the children act not out of evil but according to the relentless logic of expediency. What they do is less a comment on them than on the hairbreadth that separates the civilized from the unspeakable...
...this tight, unsettling first novel. The place stands almost deserted amid urban rubble, one of the few survivors of a highway plan that went nowhere. In it live Julie, Jack, Sue and Tom, a reasonably normal array of siblings ranging in age from 17 to six, and their mother, who is dying. The earlier death of the father and the mother's terminal illness have produced an upsurge in slovenliness and disorder among the children. What happens when the last adult dies is the stuff of tabloid headlines and, surprisingly, good fiction...