Word: motherhood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lagroua Weill-Halle's own conversion was typical. The daughter of a Roman Catholic Lyon family, she was shocked when she made her first acquaintance with le planning through a visit to a Planned Parenthood Federation clinic in Manhattan: "The desire to avoid motherhood seemed to me monstrous." But practicing in Paris, she met thousands of women who were afraid to have another child because of poverty or threats to their own health. Many had given up marital relations to avoid pregnancy. Even more were considering abortions...
...Happy Motherhood. Now a widow of 44, svelte and blonde and the mother of three. Dr. Weill-Halle has seen her volunteer movement, named Maternité Heureuse (Happy Motherhood), shoot up overnight into a major national organization, the French Movement for Family Planning. In Paris 15 physicians are already giving advice on contraception to their private patients. Even the staid French Association of Women Doctors has come around to demanding repeal...
...against materialism, religiosity, and scientism. He is (and I concede the moderate originality of his symbol) for dryads, unifying "earthiness and airiness, mortality and sky, in concrete touchable simplicity." He is for "a natural magic, the marriage of earth and sky." He is, no doubt, also for motherhood, fatherhood, and nut-brown...
...Norman Buffum ("Buffie") Chandler, wife of Press Lord Norman Chandler (Los Angeles Times and Mirror) believes that there are "seven phases" in a woman's life: birth, childhood, adolescence, education, marriage, motherhood and community service. For more than a decade Buffie, now 59, has been in Phase 7 with formidable vigor. Picking a conductor for the Los Angeles Philharmonic has long been her prerogative, and she exercises it with the care, authority and sometimes the emotionalism of Queen Victoria choosing a Prime Minister. Her latest choice, Hungarian-born Georg Sold, last week did not act the way a proper...
...Critic Kenneth Tynan wonders whether Brechtian drama "is a gigantic tribute to motherhood." Brecht's men are usually drunks, cynics or compromisers, his heroines "mostly instruments of salvation . . . Did Brecht, as rumor insists, spurn his father and worship his mother? If so, it supports the old hypothesis that the men who adore their mothers lean toward the Left, while those who idolize their fathers lean toward the Right." Whether or not Tynan is correct about Brecht, he certainly has the makings of a fascinating psychological parlor game...