Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Running Mate Ferraro, meanwhile, harped on the war-and-peace issue before large and enthusiastic crowds. As a mother, she said, she feared that a second Reagan Administration might send her son John, 20, off to war. She dismissed as specious a Philadelphia Inquirer story that a man later convicted of labor racketeering gave $700 to her congressional campaigns in 1980 and 1982. Nor did she seem burdened by the financial questions that still plague her husband, who was dismissed last week by a New York City court as the conservator of a woman's estate that he allegedly...
...went through several baby-sitters trying to find a good one. I worried during the workday and found my mind drifting to my child." But now Cortez finds it much easier to concentrate on her job. Each weekday morning Kimberly, 2, rises at 6:30 and accompanies her mother as she drives to work at Wang Laboratories in Lowell, Mass. Near by, in a former grade school leased by Wang, the toddler spends the day learning, playing and napping with 215 other youngsters. Says her mother: "I feel very comforted. Kimberly already knows her ABCs, she sings songs...
Howard's biography is shrewd and intelligent and supplies all the details about Margaret Mead, down to her recipe for salad dressing. Bateson's memoir is more an act of poetic intuition. Yet she is blunter than Howard about her mother's affairs with lovers of both sexes, and more specific about the earth mother's need to be mothered herself...
When a talking electronic game chides a child of six for a wrong answer, she talks back to it. "My God," says her mother, "she treats that thing like a person. Do you suppose she thinks that people are machines?" She may indeed, according to Author Sherry Turkle, an M.I.T. sociologist and psychologist. And as this study makes clear, that little girl is part of a cultural upheaval...
...semen. After an hour, more Y-containing sperm than sluggish Xs should have sped to the bottom. The Y sperm are further concentrated by being run through increasingly thicker solutions of albumin. "It's like making them run the Boston Marathon with overshoes on," says Ericsson. The prospective mother is then artificially inseminated with the Y-concentrated sperm. Ericsson claims that of 146 women who became pregnant by this method at clinics licensed by Gametrics, 112 bore males-a success rate...