Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York City's Harlem. By nine, he was a chronic and violent troublemaker. When he was given mental tests, he threatened to set fire to the hospital ward and kill a doctor. The tests showed that Bosket was suffering from a severe antisocial personality disorder. His helpless mother had him sent to a reform school, where he began to emulate his father...
...woman who claims to be my mother tries to convince me of that by telling me about the day I was born. But she made me suspicious one day when she mentioned another kid brought into the world only minutes after me in the very same Carswell Air Force Base Hospital in Fort Worth in which I was born. And one day, one of my parents in my presence jokingly told a friend, "We're still not sure if we ended up with the right...
THESE people, who all happen to be right-wingers, take their ideology from the father of the woman who says she is my mother. That man, a successful lawyer in Houston for some 30 years named James Ingram, believed that Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was a "hypocrite" and a "troublemaker...
...conversation with her starts like any other between a mother and son. She asks me first about school, and later, why I stay out so late all of the time. But then, these innocent discussions usually turn into another one of her brainwashing sessions...
...Wesbrook women, Lee Blessing says in his haunting off-Broadway play Eleemosynary, are determined to be exceptional. The grandmother is a New Age visionary, the mother a science scholar blessed (and cursed) with total recall, the child a national champion speller who not only knows the shape of words but revels in their layers of meaning. (The play's coy title is a spelling-bee word meaning charitable.) Yet for all their brains, beguiling eccentricity and epic betrayal, the women are touchingly ordinary in matters of the heart. Every woman, and everyone who knows and loves one, will recognize...