Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...DEAR Mother Dewitt...
...Dewitt's case this need is especially pressing. You are absolutely correct in saying that taking seven courses was a bit foolish, mother dear, but fortunately Dewitt had the foresight to enroll in one of them pass fail. Also fortunately, several professors in addition to giving reading or writing assignments to help in preparing for final examinations have required or suggested the class view a film...
...film that should be an assignment for VES 194. "Romantic Cinema," is Woody Allen's newest effort, The Purple Rose of Cairo (Harvard Square). It's your type of movie. Mother, with Mia Farrow laboring in squalor to keep herself and her brutish husband (Danny Aiello) alive, and Jeff Daniels swooping down off the screen to save her. Fred Astaire even makes a brief appearance...
...NOVEL CLOSES WITH a double irony. After a few years of lonely widowhood Ilana mother marries. Ezra Dinn and is recorded with her past. Ilana Calls 1941 the happiest year of her youth as her news family settles down to a normal life. But just as this newfound happiness appears to keep the events of the outer world at bay and prevent them from invading the hearth the unmentioned yet ever present destruction of European lewry hovers in the background. And just as her mother finally makes peace with the world the male orientation orthodox. Indaism begins to unsettle Ilana...
...quick answers spells an end to basic human dignity, and all they can think about is dying before they have really lived. And the Cracker-Jack Box prize, the incentive for late night page mongers is DeLillo's dialogue, especially between father and precocious son, or father and ditzy mother...