Word: mother
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Take the case of Harvard Coach Bill Cleary's secret goodluck charm, his mother, Helen. When the 78-year-old skipped the ECAC playoffs earlier in the month, Clarkson upset the Crimson...
...eager for another defeat, Coach Cleary insisted on his mom's presence at the NCAAs. But Mother Cleary tripped outside the Civic Center prior to Friday night's semifinal against Denver and had to be stitched up before the opening face...
...many times, it's been the other way around," Coach Cleary said, recalling boyhood days as he waited anxiously outside the trainer's room for his mother to emerge. But come Saturday, the elder Cleary was back in the stands, and the pageant rolled...
With this edict, Wilson sets in motion an exquisite comedy of errors. Clandestine meetings become necessary, with the following results: the painter, Timothy Lupton, falls in love with Maudie, while her mother decides that this dashed handsome young bohemian's attentions are directed at her. Added to this mix-up are cameo appearances by Victorian notables like Walter Pater, Charles Darwin, Anthony Trollope and Thomas Huxley. But beneath this sparkling surface roil undercurrents of genuine pain. Nettleship, a figure of fun in all his balding, pedantic outward manifestations, knows himself well enough to realize that he has botched his life...
Would the Big Boys enjoy one another? A sentimentalist likes to think so. They, more than anyone, should be able to appreciate one another in a professional way. But the wise mother knows that only children do not necessarily get along with other only children. Sociopaths have trouble socializing. Could they play together? Would they interact? What statues would adorn the hotel lobby? Who would laugh at whose jokes? Who would be primus inter pares among these sullen husks...