Word: mothered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...resident with Cape Town's Dr. Barnard at the University of Minnesota and the developer of the heart-transplant technique first used by Barnard. Shumway asked about a possible transplant. White talked it over with his children, Judith, 18, and Richard, 12. He also consulted Virginia's mother. They all said...
...aghast when his son Sidney returned from the New Left conference in Chicago in a decidedly illiberal frame of mind after being denounced by Black Power advocates. " 'I'm sick of being called a genocidal maniac!' young Sidney shouted. 'Sh-sh,' cautioned his mother. 'The liberals next door may hear you, and then we won't get invited to any more cocktail parties.' 'I'm sick of living in this liberal ghetto,' young Sidney said. 'Why don't we move out of here into a nice reactionary...
...hero of this German movie, based on an autobiographical short story by Thomas Mann, is a boy with a 19th century-style identity crisis. Father is a rich and rigid businessman of the North; Mother is a warm-blooded romantic from the South who plays the mandolin and could hardly care less that Tonio fritters away his time writing bad poems and getting bad marks at school. Tonio appreciates this permissiveness but disapproves of it; his father's strictness seems more dignified: "After all, we are not gypsies living in a green wagon...
...picture's potentially promising plot premise purports to be the problem of two people falling in love, the boy having slept with the girl's mother. For the twenty minutes of The Graduate that chronicle the initial stages of the Benjamin-Elaine courtship, Nichols hits his stride, providing a relevant contemporary romance different from the Hollywood norm, apparently setting the scene for a comic examination of the inevitable ensuing conflicts...
...conflict, but unfortunately not the conflict set-up in the first hour; The Graduate splits in two with scant transition, ultimately cancelling itself out. Nichols effects the break and abandons his premise by destroying the character of Elaine, reducing her to mere plot function. Elaine rejects Benjamin when her mother describes him as a calculating rapist, then promptly changes her mind when Benjamin denies the charges. Seriously questioning neither version of the affair (and our knowledge of Mrs. Robinson makes hard to imagine Elaine believing her mother in the first place), Elaine's amazing malleability and flirtatious indecision toward Benjamin...