Word: mothered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...doors in both Prague and Moscow. Dubcek and Cernik were flown off to Moscow in a Soviet military jet. The Czechoslovaks at first broadcast reports that Dubcek had been killed, but that was cleared up in one of the many weird, almost unreal vignettes of the week. Dubcek's mother marched in to see the local Soviet commander in Bratislava, demanding to know what the Russians had done with her son. Slightly dumfounded, the Russian officer told her: "We are negotiating with...
Edouard Vuillard was, in his own words, an armchair painter. In search of subject matter, he rarely ventured beyond the Montmartre apartment he shared with his mother, and then only to the homes of his few close friends. The apartment also served as his mother's dressmaking shop; it was constantly alive with seamstresses and customers exchanging confidences about fittings, and cluttered with bolts of satins and silks, ribbons and pattern snippings. In this homely setting, Vuillard, who derisively referred to himself as "the in-timist," fashioned vignettes of quiet domesticity that suggest a less radiant...
...room studio provided him with material enough-including a passing parade of models. One who caught his eye was a graceful seamstress who arrived for work one day wearing a scarf designed to protect and cleverly disguise the fact that she had the mumps. And then there was his mother, who lived to be 90. "My muse," he called her. He painted her bent over the sewing machine, stitching before the window, feeding her grandchild, and watering the flowers. Her hair changed color over the decades, the wrinkles deepened in her face, and still Vuillard never tired of portraying...
...Falls might have added the cultural factor. He had the advantage of sound family background and a college-graduate mother. Admission tests are written with a white, middle-class bias, complains Dr. Hiawatha Harris, a black Los Angeles psychiatrist. He cites a young Negro candidate who went through two-thirds of the questions before he came to a subject that he knew anything about. That was science. The other questions were cultural, covering (among other things) yachting jargon and French expressionist painting. "Medical schools have been judging black applicants on an equal basis with whites in an effort...
...minds his reputation as the nation's sharpest hatchet man. "In four out of five pieces," he answers, "I bend over backwards to be nice to the subject. But life just isn't apple pie and Mother's Day seven days a week, and if you're going to write something that isn't going to be thrown out with, the coffee grounds, you have to tell it like it is. Look, I'm a very people-oriented person. I grew up without any unhappiness. And I just love people. But if some jackass...