Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They disturb no reader, either, for Willard fails to convey a sense of why they were so great. Why does Iron Man McGinnity remember his first home run? Is there anything Lou Gehrig won't do for his mother? What is it about baseball that calls men back from the dead? The average reader, caught up in a tale of love, war, and the supernatural, won't ask those questions, but it's a shame Willard, definitely an above-average writer, does not answer them...
Because of this, and in deference to Mother Nature's 40-degree welcome, the coaches agreed before the game to shorten the contest to seven innings...
...Spock's mother considered herself more liberal in child-rearing matters than her own parents, just as Spock's two sons think he was too conservative. Says Spock: "They say I should have touched, hugged and kissed them more. It's a different environment now." Spock had a harder time reaching rapport with his stepdaughter Ginger, 19. Says he: "The step- relationship is a naturally cursed and poisonous...
...psychoanalytic mentors and say, 'What do you think you should tell parents about toilet training?' they'd shrug their shoulders." He found himself giving advice before he was sure that it was right. "I would give the best answer I could think of and then eagerly question the mother when she brought the baby back a month later," he recalls. "So I really learned it all from mothers...
...reports the author, so hung over that "someone seemed to have inserted a pestle into my cerebellum during the night, and was now using the inside top of my skull as a mortar." A native politely informs him, "You got drunks like a man who still lives in his mother's room. You got drunks like a schoolboy. You made noises like a babi when he looks in the ground for foods." Every misstep of the way, O'Hanlon employs a dry, self-deprecating style that cannot disguise the team's gifts for fresh and arresting description. Fenton calls...