Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...habit, devotes three hours daily to prayers and believes that a Vatican decision means "it's a finished issue, and to keep hacking over it is like digging up somebody after they're buried." Says Sister Claire Patrice Fitzgerald, principal of a Catholic parochial school outside Los Angeles: "The Mother herself was obedient to her son, Christ. The authority of the church comes from Christ, who gave it to St. Peter and his successors, the Popes. If we truly believe that's the origin of authority, how can we challenge the Popes...
...started three weeks ago by General Motors. The giant automaker launched Saturn Corp., a separate company apart from the main GM structure, to produce a new subcompact car, starting in 1987. General Motors Chairman Roger Smith said that he wanted the new subsidiary to be free of the mother company's entrenched procedures. Saturn will have its own engineering and design staffs and its own contract with the United Auto Workers. It is to be a test track for new ways of making, selling and servicing cars. Saturn will, in effect, be an entrepreneurial firm within General Motors...
...disarming state of equilibrium. Cultural norms have adjusted in Ginsberg's favor since 1956, when he disturbed the peace with Howl. It was a poetic tantrum thrown at the Eisenhower years, at an academic system that rejected his rude unconventionality, at an encompassing conspiracy he imagined had driven his mother and his soul mates crazy. "Moloch! Moloch!" he cried. "Robot apartments! invisible suburbs! skeleton treasuries! blind capitals! demonic industries! spectral nations! invincible madhouses...
...flags, but the quality is wildly uneven. There are love poems that read like high parodies of rest-room scrawl. Howl, once effective as counterculture manifesto, is now an unconvincing historical oddity: "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness." But Kaddish, about Ginsberg's insane mother, who died in 1956, is a masterpiece of candor and emotional persuasion: "The Charity of her hands stinking with Manhattan, madness, desire to please me, cold undercooked fish--pale red near the bones. Her smells--and oft naked in the room, so that I stare ahead, or turn a book...
...vigils at some 30 clinics around the country. Reagan again disavowed antiabortion extremists, urging a "complete rejection of violence as a means of settling this issue." His endorsement of the marchers was more qualified than it first seemed: a White House spokesman said Reagan still favored abortions when a mother's life ! is threatened. In any event, the Administration is not expected to push the issue this year on Capitol Hill...