Word: mothered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shopping last week, and when I came back, I saw my husband reading my copy of A Confederate General from Big Sur. When I tried to explain to him the divine nature of the book, he just laughed at me. I left him in a huff for my mother's and have sued for divorce. Do you think my actions were justified? Signed, DISTRAUGHT...
Moonlight had tricked her. She will tell her mother, "It's alright, mother, he never laid a hand on me. He was an...eclectic man." They were never alone. The walk has tried her, she will have a good night's sleep and it will be alright. She will forget...
INSIDE the cover of the copy of one of Kurt Vonnegut's books, Mother Night, that belongs to the third largest library in the country is pasted a very-old-looking bookplate. The plate bears an oval portrait of a woman beneath which is written "IN MEMORY OF PERMELIA E. CHENEY HERSEY/ 1848 VE RI TAS 1926/ THE GIFT OF HER SON/ FRANK WILSON CHENEY HERSEY/ CLASS OF 1899/ FOR RECENT BOOKS IN BRITISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE...
...finally concluded that since Vonnegut never explained, in so many words, what the title of the book, Mother Night, meant to the "I" of his narrative, obviously Permelia Hersey is, herself, Mother Night...
...Kate's mother Mrs. Hardcastle, the inevitable Sheila Hart must be applauded for the style she brings to the production. Her second act entrance with an enormous Marie Antoinette headpiece, complete with decorative clipper ship, is a first rate metaphor of spectacle as the Hum 7 people would say. Her arch delivery makes for a kind of cutting humor that saves this trifle from being just a confectioner's tableaux...