Word: motherhood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the author denies morality, motherhood, love, sex, and personality through women; it is not that he cannot see purposefulness, friendship, dignity and honor in his men. It is that we must accept his insistence on the lonely Enderby, dedicated to poetry because there is nothing else he can be dedicated to, as our only point of reference, as the fixed center of consciousness. Looking with Enderby's eyes we are forced to abandon the old philosophical principle of the duality of good and evil. We find a new duality, an immediate polarity between body -- including brain -- and non-body...
...early age, we could make some real progress toward eliminating the evils associated with poverty. Children must develop in something other than a degenerating social and physical environment if they are not to degenerate. True, institutionalization of the young is a threat to the concept of the sanctity of motherhood. But gad! Where in the hovels TIME describes is the validity of this concept...
...give today's young protesters pause to discover that way back in 1943 this chap Wylie was throwing verbal Molotov cocktails at authority, the church, motherhood, scientists and economists. His book Generation of Vipers, written in a mood of "ribaldry and rage," became a famous bestseller. True, it did not inspire street riots or start campus revolutions, but at least it gave aid and comfort to thousands of as yet un-Freudianized young men and women who wanted to reject their mothers...
...senior high school to spot troublemakers and keep them in line. The foundation supports high school courses for prisoners in the county jail, runs the nation's largest Big Brother agency, in which some 900 men become companions of fatherless kids. A high school course on unwed motherhood progresses, logically, to a course on planned parenthood...
Even at this distance in time, to say anything less than laudatory about the founder of the Boy Scout movement may seem like sneering at motherhood, or burning draft cards. But now that historians are forwarding overdue accounts to the once-Empire, it probably had to happen. Brian Gardner, a young Englishman who has given up journalism for history, deserves a merit badge for his neat hatchet job on Lord Baden-Powell of Gilwell...