Word: mother
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...maternal warmth. She understands their obsessions, their drives; she sympathizes with the "attempt to create a theater life before the theater accepts you." Such empathy comes naturally to her: "it's not possible to teach without relating to the students as human beings." From excitable little girl to understanding mother-figure, her metamorphosis has come full circle...
...Nestles states that "the preponderance of available evidence points to a mother's need, or desire, to work as the principal reason for the breast feeding decline." My review of studies from Third World countries and my own work suggests this is not the case. An analysis of recently published studies from five countries in Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Caribbean suggests that no more than 6 per cent of mothers in any country said they gave up breast feeding in order to work...
...Forster's beginnings did not promise a happy ending. There was, first of all, a hint of early mortality. His father, a feckless architect, died of tuberculosis in 1880, less than two years after Edward Morgan was born. That left his care entirely to Lily, his formidable mother, and to a zealous battalion of female relatives and friends. They coddled him mercilessly, dressed him like a fop and spoke of him in his presence as "the Important One." Naturally, the boy grew into a man thoroughly confused about his sex and spectacularly bumbling at practical affairs...
...private money and plenty of leisure. His contemporaries at Cambridge and, later, in London's Bloomsbury circle tolerated and applauded eccentricities. But Forster never wanted notoriety or much attention at all. His retiring manner earned him the nickname "the taupe" (the mole) from Lytton Strachey. Writing his mother about a projected meeting with Henry James, the young author was comically unassuming: "I hear he likes people to be handsome and well dressed, so I shall fail all round." He even construed his repressions as an example of good manners: "However gross my desires, I find I shall never satisfy...
Such tensions might have destroyed him. Instead, they lent rare power to his fiction. He learned to see two distinct ways of life. One belonged to the smug, narrow, easily shocked circle populated by his mother and her friends. The other possessed his imagination: total friendship, passionate, uninhibited and free, with a like spirit. Artistically, Forster did not want to choose, to become simply a novelist of manners or a poet of pleasures. The motto of his fourth novel, Howards End (1910), captured both the dilemma and the hope: "Only connect...