Word: mothered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...child. And yet when he awakens, he awakens to a living nightmare." He was rather embarrassing in the sketch of another child, himself, who hears a train go by and dreams of faraway places. "It seems like an impossible dream." But a self-sacrificing father, a "gentle Quaker mother," a dedicated teacher, a minister, a courageous wife, loyal offspring, devoted followers?plus a cast of millions of voters?combine to put that boy on the train that stopped last week in Miami Beach, possibly on the way to the White House...
...picked up some of the most telling reaction shots-Pat Nixon staring cold-eyed when a nominator mentioned Nelson Rockefeller's undefeated election record, Ronald Reagan's mother-in-law chanting "We want Reagan!" ABC also had its moments with a couple of prefilmed reports, including the only network penetration into a caucus (Idaho) and into the Nixon command trailer, which resembled a bookie joint...
...disagreements that led them into divorce court in the first place, the New Jersey couple were agreed on at least one point: since they were both Jews, they wanted their two children raised as Jews. Nor was there much question about custody. As usual, it went to the mother. But when the mother married a Protestant and moved to Idaho, the children's father sued to have custody reassigned...
...ruling, Judge William Consodine of the Essex County Superior Court withheld the names of the couple and emphasized that normally, "mixed marriages are of no more concern to courts than interracial marriages." But in the Idaho town where they would live, he noted, "the two children and their mother would be the only Jews. There are but two temples in the state, the nearer one being almost 300 miles away. Of Idaho's population (692,000), only 500, or .07%, are Jews." The father, on the other hand, lives in northern New Jersey, where "temples, Hebrew schools and extrareligious...
Meanwhile, a pictorial record of what was allegedly the real thing is on display in Revolution, a cinéma vérité documentary made on the San Francisco scene last summer. There is acid rock by such groups as the Quicksilver Messenger Service and Mother Earth. There are shots of long-haired nymphets looking stoned, solemn interviews with cops, doctors, and headshrinkers about the dangers of drugs, and interminable expositions of hippie philosophy by unbathed gurus. Apparently for the benefit of grind-house voyeurs, there is also some totally nude choreography-filtered through eye-blasting psychedelic lighting-danced...