Word: mothered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bored thousands who sit in their plush offices, protected by a benefit program that only an affluent society looking for tax advantages could imagine, your Second Acts Essay [March 8] is exciting and challenging. Cutting the umbilical cord to the big mother corporation is hard, but in most cases, it does open up a whole new life. After 18 years with a fine company, I have made the change. Your article is reassuring...
...Douglas Harriman Kennedy, 14 months, stayed home.) Their hair brushed to Sunday-school neatness, wearing their dress navy blues, mother and children were exhibits A through J of the Kennedys' lean physical vitality...
...folksy humor, Fiedler's hawk eye spots paradox, irony and mordant wit. Hence Pocahontas is "our first celebrated traitor to her own race ... a model long in advance of Uncle Tom." Hannah Duston is not the heroic protector of white womanhood and the family but the great castrating mother of all men-a Mary Worth in linsey-woolsey. The tale of Rip Van Winkle is really about booze as a weapon against women. Only Natty Bumppo and Chingachgook make it through Fiedler's gauntlet without lumps. They constitute, he says, "the image of the runaway from home...
...itinerant hick reporter could come to the big city and give the blase natives the last thing one would have expected from him: a successful, sophisticated magazine. It was not, Ross proclaimed, "for the old lady in Dubuque"; it wasn't even for Ross's own mother. Her unreal ized ambition for him was to see something under his byline in the Saturday Evening Post. He was shy, so much so that he had a hard time rustling funds to start The New Yorker. Though he dealt with the best humorists of his time, he was no phrasemaker...
...Mother India has played auntie to many orphaned spirits. Christopher Isherwood, the Beatles, Mia Sinatra: the list lengthens every year. The latest addition is Paul Fraser, the tall, blue-eyed New Yorker who is the troubled protagonist of this novel. At 46, Paul is a successful playwright and lover but, alas, a spiritual cipher. And after botching a suicide attempt, he drifts off to India-where Author Brown feels thoroughly at home...