Word: motherism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Louis Alvarez, 17, born in Puerto Rico, arrived in the U.S. at the age of four; three years later his mother died. He was captain of a baseball team, member of the Police Athletic League. Assistant president of the Egyptian Dragons, he shouldered out the president, made himself boss. On the night of the murder, he confessed, he had steeled his courage by getting drunk on cheap wine. He used a knife...
Charles Morton (nickname: Big Man), 18, husky (6 ft. 2 in., 170 Ibs.), Alabama-born Negro, picked cotton 14 hours a day when he was seven, went to New York at 15 to live with his mother, whom he had seen previously only once a year. He confessed that he played his role "to show the others I was doing something." He swung the machete...
Leoncio DeLeon (nickname: Jello), 17, born in the Dominican Republic, arrived in the U.S. alone in 1952, quit school to help support his mother, has not seen his father in six years. He used a stick...
...inquirer will find it difficult to associate Mr. Eyre with any nationality, for a light red, almost auburn, thatch of hair correctly betrays an Irish back-ground, and a large migration of his mother's Shropshire family traversed western Europe to Bavaria many centuries ago. "One of my family claims we are related to the Rainiers--the Monaco Rainiers--but I think the relationship is a dubious one, very dubious... Yet it is fun when Grace bears yet another child to remark that the family is getting larger all the time...
...most hostile attitude towards leaving is usually that of the student's parents. "Most parents feel that leaving college will be the end of their son's education, and often violently oppose such an act," Stewart notes. Perkins supports Stewart's statement, relating an experience in which the mother of a mentally healthy boy who wanted to leave asked him: "Is my boy crazy?" Parents often feel that, after their own financial sacrifice, their sons will never again be able to get into the groove of college life...