Word: motherism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time now I expect to hear an earth-bound mother talking to her space-bound daughter thusly: "But dear, you simply cannot do it. You just cannot marry out of your planet...
...Star. Julia Jean Mildred Frances Turner was a pressagent's dream ready-made for stardom by Hollywood standards. Her father was killed in a gambling scrape when she was ten; her mother struggled to keep her alive. In Hollywood one day, when she was a well-stacked 16, she was "discovered" as she sat at a drugstore fountain. Hollywood gave her the big buildup. Renamed Lana, she made movies with the biggest of the box-office giants-Gable, Taylor, Cooper-and nobody, least of all the customers, cared if she was not a second Sarah Bernhardt...
Katherine Cornell, as the royal mother-by-adoption of Moses, fulfills a stately role solidly. She moves very little--except her enormous eyelids--but very skillfully, and she delivers some of the play's few poetic lines--"We all belong to Egypt.../ Our lives to on the loom/And the land weaves...
Rumer Godden's new novel starts innocently enough with five little English brothers and sisters, ranging from a few years to 16, going to France with their mother for a summer holiday. Mrs. Grey gets bitten by a horsefly and lands in the hospital, leaving the children to manage as best they can without Mum in a nearby pension on the Marne. For page upon page, everything hums along with the summery warmth of semifantasy. Greengage plums drop from the tree with juicy plops, the barges of the Marne glide noiselessly over the sunny water. The owner...
...climbs up to Joss's bedroom and is about to collect something more precious than stones, when Eliot relegates him to the compost heap with a single knife-stab. Suddenly, the beautiful old house rings to the tramp of invading flatfeet and the idyl ends with a whimper: "Mother. I want Mother...