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Word: mother (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...touches on inflation and the plight of the senior citizen. "One thing I think that we all fear as senior citizens--and I'm well on my way there, I was 59 last week, is what my mother has always said to me, 'Don't put me away,' and I know what she means--we should avoid institutionalization of senior citizens...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: 'It Doesn't Stop in the Living Room' | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

Marilyn G. Breslow, who graduated in 1970, is the administrative manager of a Polaroid research facility and the mother of two small children. Fulfilling the responsibilities of both these jobs is "no mean feat," she says, adding "I have to be in good physical shape for this lifestyle. I can't afford to get sick...

Author: By Joan Feigenbaum, | Title: The 'New Girl Network' | 11/1/1978 | See Source »

Diana Barrett, who graduated from the Business School in 1974, says she thinks it is unrealistic to expect most marriages to work out so equitably. An instructor in Management Development in Health Care at the School of Public Health, Barrett is the mother of one child and expects a second. She says she "has structured her family and professional responsibilities so that they dovetail...I still play a much stronger role than my husband when it comes to our child...

Author: By Joan Feigenbaum, | Title: The 'New Girl Network' | 11/1/1978 | See Source »

...super-professional, super-wife, and super-mother all at once. Women who are very good at organizing their time try to do two jobs--and their professional life suffers...

Author: By Joan Feigenbaum, | Title: The 'New Girl Network' | 11/1/1978 | See Source »

...girlfriend (Maureen Stapleton) crashes in on the scene in flaming red and glitter, the contrast becomes too obvious, almost ludicrous. The ocean rumbles too loud and too often, even if the isolation of the beaches is such an appropriate setting. And in the last shots--after the mother is dead and buried and the new wife properly installed--the tranquility of the ocean and the family is so simple a device it seems merely trite. Allen adheres so closely to a unity of form and content that his film becomes artsy, rather than...

Author: By Katherine P. States, | Title: Woody Allen's Other Side | 10/31/1978 | See Source »

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