Word: motherism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...parties, etc.). She has been mistaken at times for Mamie Eisenhower (who once told her: "How nice and well-behaved your bangs are"), puts politics second to keeping her family (four children, aged ten to 20) together, says: "You can't be a social butterfly and a good mother...
...five years have passed away, Joe's sickness become so serious that his attending physician is very anxious of his health going to ruin by alcohol. But his only son Joby Chanpin (Ray Stricklyn) hear at that as news, he calls Ann back home from N.Y. and abuses his mother of indifference for her husband strongly. Be that as it may, Joe has a good time with his son, daughter and wife for a few days but happiness is uncertain...
...pedestrian character of these national connections, several fraternities have made abortive attempts to become independent, and two others are about to try to denationalize. The financial and doctrinal pressure of the national chapters rankles on "fraternity row," and St. Elmo's, for example, declared itself independent after the mother chapter deplored its snobbishness and disrespect of frat pins...
...Houston school board, which runs the nation's largest (159,200 students) segregated school system, last week found itself in an unsettling situation-its newest member, 42-year-old Mrs. Hattie Mae White, is a Negro. A former public school teacher and mother of five children, Mrs. White startled Houston citizens when she announced her candidacy ten weeks ago. She was written off as a crusading eccentric when she ignored a vacant seat on the school board, decided instead to run against Board Member Dr. John K. Glen, a staunch segregationist...
Pather Panchali (Indian). Director Savajit Ray has produced the first cinematic masterpiece ever made in India: a stirring vision of life in Mother Asia...