Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...With A Mother and Two Daughters (1982), her fifth novel, Gail Godwin joined that select circle of critically praised authors who have also produced bestsellers. This happy event entitled her longtime admirers to mixed emotions. While it is pleasurable to see a favored writer receive the success she deserves, it is irksome to realize that membership in a small club of discriminating readers has suddenly been thrown open to multitudes. If so many people, the reasoning follows, liked Godwin's loose, loving chronicle of three plucky females, then maybe we should find it disappointing. And whom will she write...
...Finishing School should thoroughly satisfy both of Godwin's constituencies. It is at once her most artful and accomplished novel and an old-fashioned, irresistible page turner. The plot, like that of A Mother and Two Daughters, is set in motion by the death of a father and the adjustments demanded of the women he protected. But this time Godwin has made things harder on the survivors, particularly a young daughter who must endure a brief but harrowing rite of passage toward maturity...
Ordinally a disconcerting sight, a dose of Boy George in the morning is potentially deadly, a fact my mother was unaware of a month ago when she plopped the current issue of Harvard Magazine onto my stomach as I lay in bed recovering from New Year's Eve festivities. "Look what's on the cover," she said. "What," indeed. At least the contents behind that now-infamous cover of England's Best Advertisement for Fashion Euthanasia couldn't make me feet any worse than I was feeling already, so I took the plunge into "Androgynous Zones" by Peter Engel...
...when she spoke, the packed Currier House's "fishbowl" and balcony went hush. When she finished reading her poem, "S M", she paused and asked the audience, "do you cry?" There was nervous laughter and nervous yesses. "It's so hard for you to say that...as my mother says, you'll cry soon enough. And the way things are looking you might as well get good practice...
...Washington's second-largest program of foreign assistance in Africa, after Egypt. In addition, partly to cope with the refugee crisis, Washington is donating at least another $60 million in emergency aid. But most of that will have to be used to feed hungry Sudanese. Says Amala Hussein, the mother of six from the drought-stricken region of Northern Kordofan: "In our area there is only hunger and thirst now. In the summer our goats, sheep and camels were all dying from lack of grass...