Word: mothered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from shampooing their mounts' tails and fixing them with hair set to employing liquid shoe polish to cover up especially stubborn stall stains. All decked out, a horse must have some place to go, and one answer is the U.S. Pony Clubs ("Our Little League," says one mother). There are also the full-fledged horse shows, now almost weekly events in areas where there were once only three a year...
Portnoy wears his Oedipus complex as if it were a festering good-conduct medal that had been stapled to his sternum. But his is a tragedy in which Oedipus is played by Groucho Marx. Mother Portnoy is a vibrant orange-haired vision who has never given up trying to smother her son in the warm pudding of her ample bosom. She surpasses the grotesque stereotype simply because Roth plays her absolutely straight, making her totally and comically unconscious of the unconscious...
Marriage for young Victor's parents was a lifelong state of war in which the children were hostages. Father was a Yorkshire lad. Mother came from London-a "cheeky cockney girl." Temperamentally they were even farther apart. Father was an optimist, a dandy "walking in and out of jobs with the bumptiousness of a god." By the time Victor was twelve, the cab at the door had moved the Pritchetts 18 times. While Mother wept, Father filled those cabs with his bland bass voice...
Hating Father did not mean loving Mother. In fact, the Pritchetts were that human catastrophe, a close but unloving family. What they had instead of love was intensity. Thus Grandfather Pritchett, a minister, "looked like a sergeant major who did not drink." He beat his carpets and his sons with "a genial sadistic touch." Pritchett concludes that his own father was partly playing the pass-on-the-pain game. (Authors who have suffered Pritchett's critical thrashings may believe the same...
...named Hobbs, who was cynical, glamorously debauched, and gauntly full of death. After four years, he went to live in Paris, and eventually moved into a writing career via journalism. Could any young man more convincingly escape a family trap? Yet just as they obsessed each other, Father and Mother still obsess their...