Word: mothered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Starting late-just four weeks before the election-Bobby parlayed his longstanding assets. He imported some of the nation's most talented political organizers, led by Lawrence O'Brien and Ted Kennedy. He mobilized three generations of kin-Mother Rose, Sisters Eunice, Jean and Pat, Children David, Michael and Courtney. Ethel, who is expecting their eleventh campaigner in January, did her smiling bit. Meticulous planning and arrangements, plus Kennedy's own crowd-catching personality, consistently made for large audiences, while McCarthy and Branigin frequently dissipated their efforts on small groups...
Father Hillman finds no difficulty in the Biblical injunction (Genesis 2:24): "Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and cleaves to his wife and they become one flesh." Polygamy was common among the ancient Jews, he points out, and in the marriage laws of Moses, the word wife "is used regularly with reference to marriage cases which may be either polygamous or monogamous." Nor does polygamy violate the concept of "one flesh." Just as "the several children of one mother may be regarded as 'one flesh' with her by reason of their unity in generation...
...should not encourage polygamy. But he also argues that the church should accept as converts tribesmen who have already contracted valid polygamous marriages. To do otherwise, says Hillman, means telling a man, "in the name of the Christian ideal of marriage and family life, that he must divorce the mother of his own children...
FRIDAY, APRIL 26 -- I wake up at 8:55 and run to the crew bus and leave for MIT. In Cambridge I call home. My mother asks me, "Are you on the side of the law-breakers in this thing?" For ten minutes we exchange mother talk and revolutionary rhetoric. She points out that neither Ghandi nor Thoreau would have asked for amnesty. I admit I haven't read them. But Ghandi had no Ghandi to read and Thoreau hadn't read Thoreau. They had to reach their own conclusions and so will...
...ending. The cops arrive. The officer bullhorns us: "On behalf of the trustees of Columbia University and with the authority vested in me... " That's as far as he is able to get, as we answer his question and all others with our commune motto -- "Up against the wall, mother fuckers." We can't hold the barricade because the doors open out and the cops simply pull the stuff out. They have to cut through ropes and hoses and it takes them fifteen minutes before they can come through. All the while they're not more than 30 feet from...