Word: motherhood
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...results, Dr. Javert's patients achieve the motherhood of a live, healthy baby (often two or three of them) in 80% of cases. This, he concedes, is about the same measure of success reported by other anti-abortion specialists using different methods, some directly opposed to his. But there is not necessarily any conflict in these facts and figures. By no coincidence, all the most successful obstetricians and gynecologists go in for massive doses of reassurance and emotional support to the troubled women they treat. Thrice-married Obstetrician Javert, father of two, prescribes other comforts in moderation-wine...
...Mohr cited the case history of a nine-year-old boy who complained of bellyaches after meals. His mother said that his pains were similar to hers-and she had a duodenal ulcer. Dr. Mohr found that the woman had not wanted the child; motherhood had made her give up a promising art career. He decided that her pains and her child's were both reactions to frustration and stress...
...ground rules observed with equal fervor by editorial writers and politicians is that the Civil War is about as amenable to levity as motherhood. It was a reasonably calculated risk for President Eisenhower to call Confederate General Jeb Stuart a headline hunter, and for Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery to label Pickett's charge as ''monstrous." But when Ike and Monty jocularly agreed that Generals Lee and Meade should have been ''sacked'' for their blunders at Gettysburg (TIME, May 20). they committed themselves irrevocably to battle...
...where his constituents are apt to bleed. There is a much more serious problem. To make any major cut in the budget, the Congress would have to slash hard at defense, mutual security, farm programs or welfare. And in the halls of Congress, that is like being against motherhood...
...play has funny lines, and here and there an amusing scene. But on the whole, it both bogs down as a tale and goes out of bounds in the telling. Motherhood may or may not be sacred, but it cannot for three acts without respite be altogether happily profane; the theme turns more than dubious, it turns dull. And the telling in Tunnel is no help. In dealing exclusively with errant husbands, expectant wives and unwed mothers, it is essential that there be a light touch that leaves no smudge, a swift skating tempo that outrides thin ice. The Tunnel...