Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...human connection is all but unseen: real self-awareness comes in monologue or in rueful exchanges among the shades of characters already dead. In the climax, a young woman who has died in childbirth revisits earth on the day of her twelfth birthday, only to find that her mother cannot "see" her. That is, not only is the mother unable to envision the ghost of her daughter's future self but, for all her maternal devotion, she is so caught up in minutiae that she fails to pay meaningful attention to the actual girl who stands yearning for it. That...
Gorbachev retains his ties to Privolnoye, going to see his mother there at least once a year. On one trip to Stavropol in 1982, Gorbachev, by then a member of the Politburo, talked with aged collective farmers, who complained about their low pensions of 36 rubles ($49.30) a month. "I know my mother also receives 36 rubles, but she keeps chickens and a cow; why don't you?" Gorbachev replied. (Nonetheless, back in Moscow, he saw to it that pensions were increased.) Maria Panteleyevna regularly attends Russian Orthodox Church services, and there are reports that she had Gorbachev baptized. Gorbachev...
...name Gorbachev appears on the memorial seven times, though it is not certain which of his relatives are meant. His father Sergei was conscripted and fought at the front for four years, during which "Misha" (the common Russian nickname for Mikhail) must have spent much time alone with his mother Maria Panteleyevna Gorbachev. In a recent interview on Soviet TV, she recalled that at one period during the war Gorbachev could not go to school for several months because he had no shoes. Sergei wrote home urging Maria Panteleyevna to sell anything she could and buy shoes because "Misha must...
...walk up Dzerzhinsky Street and discussing their problems then. He also began in Stavropol Krai the walkabouts that were later to cause a national sensation when he continued the practice as General Secretary. On a visit to a village in the Izobilnynsky district, he heard from an indignant mother of six children how the manager of a state store had treated her rudely. The storekeeper was fired. Gorbachev showed some independence from Moscow when he was Stavropol party boss. Turned down for state financing of a permanent circus building, he solicited funds from local organizations and institutions...
...tanker's cargo ignited, setting the sea aflame. As the inferno engulfed both ships, dozens of passengers leaped, diving deep to avoid the burning waters. Swimming beyond the fiery oil, Eugenio Orot, 27, surfaced hundreds of feet away from the ferry. As the anguished screams of children calling "Nanay!" (mother) and "Tatay!" (father) echoed around him, he searched desperately for his two children and wife, but to no avail. Within four hours, the Dona Paz and the Victor were gone...