Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same evening that Noon meets Mrs. Johanna Keighley (nee Von Hebenitz), wife of a doctor in Boston and mother of two sons, she invites him into her bed. The next afternoon she does so again. Writes Lawrence: "I am not going to open the door of Johanna's room, not until Mr. Noon opens it himself. I've been caught that way before. I have opened the door for you, and the moment you gave your first squeal in rushed the private detective you had kept in the background." This is a direct reference to the problems...
...mother, determined to keep an eye on her son's computing activities, moved the machine out of his bedroom and into the kitchen...
...became obsessed with the machines, at least in the eyes of other family members. One wife complained that her husband was rushing through meals to get to his computer. A husband lamented that his spouse was spending more time programming her computer than tending to his needs. And one mother said her teen-ager's complexion turned "the color of cream cheese" as a result of too many marathon sessions in front of the newest tube...
...hell one creates with other people. Quentin's inferno has been stoked by his belief that love in its modern forms - friendship, political idealism, familial responsibility, courtly lust - can conquer all. As he discovers in remembered scenes with his dying father, his doting scold of a mother, his colleagues in fair and foul weather, his bitter first wife and Maggie, love conquers nothing but the lover. It drains him, proves him inadequate, drives him toward madness. Suffocated by Maggie's whims and paranoia, Quentin cannot feel even that signal emotion of the nice guy: guilt. He can only...
...Putting Cruelty First," the title of Chapter One, provides us with Shklar's point of departure. Cruelty, the mother of Shklar's analysis, nurses some more ordinary foibles--hypocrisy, snobbery, betrayal and misanthropy. But in a discussion of politics and character, we must begin with the worst. "What we hate," Montaigne said of cruelty, "we take seriously...