Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...former princely state of Gwalior, a scion of maharajahs, Madhavrao Scindia, 39, the local candidate for Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's Congress (I) Party, courted voters after descending each day from his sumptuous palace amid a swirl of liveried servants; just as faithfully every morning, his mother regally journeyed from the palace to campaign for an opposition party. In the southern town of Madhuranthakam, a disgruntled politician, who had been refused a place on the party ticket by the Prime Minister, plunged the local election into chaos by persuading 84 people to join him in running as independent candidates. Having...
...could have predicted such longevity for the infant Forster, least of all his formidable mother Lily. Her first baby had died at birth. The second, born on New Year's Day in 1879, survived, but his father was dead of tuberculosis 22 months later. Lily and a clutch of female relatives and friends conspired to keep young Edward from all harm; they mercilessly spoiled him, referred to him as "the Important One" in his presence and left him unprepared for the schoolboys who later called him "Mousie" instead...
...postgraduate tour of Italy with his mother, he sprained an ankle and broke an arm. Lily was forced to bathe her incapacitated son, to her evident enjoyment. She wrote a relative: "He looks 1 splendid now I do him." Forster accepted such smothering care without open complaint. Indeed, he shared the feeling that he was an incompetent in worldly matters. During his 20s, he astonished a friend by stating his belief that telephone wires were hollow. Not even the publication of his first novel, Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905), could persuade some acquaintances that he had grown...
Neither did Forster, who kept on writing, driven by appreciative reviews and inner necessity. In varying forms, The Longest Journey (1907), A Room with a View (1908) and Howards End (1910) all constituted a subtle rebellion from the tyranny of his mother and her circle, the comfortable middle-class English world of suburban villas and careful class distinctions. Against such strangulated values, the son set a fictional vision of the free discourse he had enjoyed at Cambridge, coupled with the warm sensuality he had glimpsed during travels in Italy and Greece...
...works seem adolescent, that may be because Garcia Márquez was only 19 when the first story, The Third Resignation, was published in 1947. It is a derivative exercise in the macabre and surrealistic, enlivened with a touch of humor. A boy overhears a doctor conferring with his mother: "Madam, your child has a grave illness: he is dead." The ghosts of Edgar Allan Poe and O. Henry sweep through these early tales, the fear of being buried alive confirmed or denied through trick endings...