Word: mothered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...believe that Jesus founded this church, and I really do not want my children to grow up in any other. After all, if we can somehow come to the true teachings of Jesus, we'll find more than Camelot -we'll find heaven. The teachings of Holy Mother Church may be the only force that can keep our children from the evils that surround them today. That, to a mother, can be the greatest force on earth...
...plays an upright, uptight Los Angeles lawyer named Harold Fine with a surfeit of standard comic woes: asthma, a meaningless job, a possessive fiancée, a Jewish mother. One sunny day a psychedelicate girl (Leigh Taylor-Young) bakes him a bunch of groovy brownies from an Alice B. Toklas Cook Book recipe that specifies a few pinches of hashish. Harold promptly blows his mind and his job, puts on a hippie face and runs off with the girl. But as his hair grows down to his shoulders his troubles run up to his ears. Mama kvetches on the phone...
...chess tournaments. Even psychiatry is tainted. An M.I.T. computer offers comfort to any troubled human. You sit at a typewriter keyboard and inform the machine that your father beats you. "I'm glad you mention your home life," the computer replies politely. "You haven't said much about your mother, for instance...
...decision of your parents to conceive a child at that particular time in their lives is less the product of their philosophical ideas than of the security which your father felt because the lawnmovers were selling well in the hardware store he worked in and which your mother felt because she was sitting around young and complacent with little else to do; 2) the act of conception was something they had to try several nights before they were sure they had something--why on one of those nights you were conceived and on the others you weren't is beyond...
...needing someone like you to have around at the time you need someone. The random factors here are infinite in their inter-relations. The converse view is that love is entirely determined by your past. Probably you will fall in love with someone unconsciously reminiscent of your mother. Also whenever you and a girl mutually fall in love, that event directly determines the life of the other boy she would have fallen in love with, who falls in love with another girl, who would therefore fall in love with someone else, who falls in have with someone who would have...