Word: motherism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...baffled, questioning 14-year-olds, who seem hardest hit by adolescence. Nearly a third of their complaints have no medical basis. But not all are so simply psychosomatic as those of the boy whose serious headaches began when his father remarried shortly after the death of his mother -who had similar headaches. Many surface complaints turn up real trouble: vague pains sometimes signal diabetes, tumors, infections, heart disease...
...stretch in the Navy during World War I, "Mom wanted me to be President and the old man wanted me to be an admiral. Me, I wanted to be a charter boatman. I bought a backyard-built, potbellied boat called the Bonita in Bay Head, N.J., put my mother, father and girl friend on board, and headed for Miami. The girl got off in Maryland, but we made it to Miami." In those days "the water in the bay was gin-clear, and you could stand on the bank and catch twice your weight in fish...
...that they can compete on even terms with bigger nations. The Netherlands' 38-year-old K.L.M. and Belgium's Sabena, both with far-flung routes and big, modern fleets, rank among the world's finest airlines, earn valuable foreign exchange and promote much tourism for their mother nations. Flying to the U.S. and South America, Japan Air Lines serves a booming nation of 90 million people, not only generates most of its own international traffic but has such an effective domestic network that it operates without subsidy. Australia's globe-circling Qantas gets heavy traffic from...
...Socialite-Poetaster Blanche Oelrichs (who wrote and kept a salon as Michael Strange) was fondly expected to produce a great work of art, but all that ever came of it was Diana, "a fat little girl [with] straight black hair cut in stringy bangs." When Diana was four, Mother loosed her wedlock on Father, who went west to make movies and whoopee-a disappearance disastrous to Diana, or so the picture suggests. At any rate, when Diana was 20, she made her Broadway debut to impressive reviews, and went west to make movies and whoopee...
...details, the script sticks surprisingly close to the book. Gigi (Caron) is a dear little French girl whose grand aunt and grandmother have given her a strict upbringing in the finest traditions of their family-which happens to be a family of expensive prostitutes. Gigi's mother is the black sheep-she has sunk to a respectable job as a second lead in the Opera-Comique-and Gigi's guardians (Hermione Gingold and Isabel Jeans) are taking no chances with such bad heredity. They drill the little girl in the fundamentals of her profession: 1) the proper...