Word: mothered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vanish not by fiat but rather by the clarification that occurs in a child's mind when a parent "mirrors" or states his problems for him. To spank a tot who says, "I hate you," is to store up his anger that will augment future misbehavior. A skillful mother listens, says, "I know just how you feel," and the child's feeling that someone understands shrinks the anger to a size that he himself can subdue. Reassurance rather than reprimand is often the best medicine for defeat or failure...
Denise Ann Darvall, 25, had no thought of death when she set out with her father and mother to visit friends for Saturday-afternoon tea. In Cape Town's Observatory district, Edward Darvall stopped the car. His wife and daughter started across the street to a bakery to buy a cake when both were struck by a speeding car. Mrs. Darvall was killed instantly. Denise was barely alive, but only barely, on arrival at Groote Schuur Hospital. Her head and brain were almost completely destroyed. The emergency room called Dr. Barnard. The doctors agreed: Denise could not survive. Barnard...
Quality of Seduction. For her, she says, the Spanish musical idiom has "the same quality that our great flamenco dancers have-the sense of excitement held tightly under control. With this comes the quality of seduction, a certain haughtiness, or pride." She has absorbed that idiom thoroughly. Both her mother and aunt studied piano with Granados, and her own teacher, the late Frank Marshall, was a notable Granados disciple. Today, when she is not hopping continents to keep up with her steadily expanding concert schedule, she directs the piano academy that Granados founded in Barcelona. Among the faculty: her aunt...
...crusty old bear of a liberal newspaper publisher and his dashing, efficient career wife, who else but Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn starring in their ninth movie together? For the Negro fiancé, who else to choose but the smooth and handsome Sidney Poitier? What would Poitier's mother be if not sweet and sensitive, and Beah Richards (Raisin in the Sun, The Miracle Worker) is the best sweet-and-sensitive Negro mother in all of show business...
...situation being carefully stacked by the scriptwriters, Poitier, of course, is no ordinary Negro. Not only handsome, charming and intelligent, he is also an M.D. with enough degrees, honors and professorships behind him to make Ralph Bunche feel like an underachiever. Mother Hepburn is soon won over to his side; Father Tracy greatly admires the boy but sees too much unhappiness ahead to give his approval. The same attitudes are echoed by Poitier's mother and father, a retired mailman. These are the guess-whos that come to dinner-or rather a prolonged cocktail hour, during which everybody pairs...