Word: mothered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are "characters," too, members of an American family in Simon Watson Taylor's translation of the French original. They are, all but one, fairly normal people: a middle-aged father and mother, their young daughter, their contentious maid-of-all-work, and, for a single scene, a visitor from an apartment on the same floor of an apartment house where they are presently living...
...someone admit to love of good wood, to talk about concerts and buses after the dedicated artistry which burdens even the good material in the Advocate. Why, the price of admission would be well spent if it bought you nothing but an introduction to Mr. Dorcas' mind, whoever's mother's son he might...
...popular Pancho Villa or Zapata mustaches seen in her Manhattan discotheque, Arthur, are phonies. Narcotics agents regard hoked-up hairiness as an invaluable aid in infiltrating hippie drug circles, and servicemen feel an added hank of hair increases chances that the weekend pass will be completed. According to one mother, her son and all his friends at Fort Sill, Okla., have ordered mustaches and beards by mail...
Shattered Shards. As he traces the history of Von Sydow's agonies, Bergman draws almost too straight a line: as a boy, the painter was chastised by his parents, locked in a dark closet, then caned repeatedly by his father until he begged forgiveness from his mother. As Von Sydow descends into insanity, he keeps re-enacting that scene in the closet. His dread of the dark, his punishment and redemption, are constantly replayed; the characters who destroy him are shards of his shattered personality that, by direct transference, come to obsess his wife...
...tubas, or clarinets. The lady to my left, small and pleasant, began to talk of her daughter. "...And she went to Wellesley. But she grew a bit too fond of all the boys' schools around, so she didn't finish. Now she is working with 'Up With People.'" The mother turned to me, dropped her voice a few earnest notes, "And what do you think about all this? Isn't it terrible? People must develop Character, then they wouldn't do such things...