Word: motherism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Society has vague and contradictory standards, and other factors work to undermine the parents' convictions and decisions. Furthermore, indecision wrecks discipline: "The child has an amazing ability to know when the parents are unsure. But parents often have a conflict between themselves. Little success can be expected unless mother and father agree on rules and present a united front...
Their leader, "Mother Ann" Lee, reached the colonies from England in 1774, with her own mystical version of the Protestant faith. Mother Ann insisted on strict communal life, with all property held in common, equality of the sexes combined with absolute celibacy, and simplicity and directness in all things. "Be hand-minded," she would urge. "Put your hands to work and your hearts to God." Soon there were 19 self-contained communities scattered through New England, New York, Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana. Every Shaker practiced a craft with particular diligence, producing everything except babies. They have now almost died...
...brute, who later confesses that he loathes all actors, gives him the brush. Meanwhile the hero's girl comes east, gets a job, persuades him to marry her, gets pregnant, begs him to quit the stage, loses hope and the baby, runs home to mother and gets a divorce. Grimly true to his art, the hero hangs on. And so it goes for an hour and three-quarters, through every possible vicissitude of a Broadway career-from Sorry, You're Not the Type to the Faithless Friend to the Marriage of Ambition to the McCarthy Blacklist...
Climate of Horror. Unmarried at 32, Eleanor Vance has spent the past eleven years of her life caring for a sick mother whom she hated. Now Mama has died, Eleanor is living with a dull married sister, and her experience of life is a dreary vacuum. It is almost like liberation when Dr. Montague takes her on as one of three assistants to check psychic phenomena at a haunted house in a grubby small town. Author Jackson, a self-confessed dabbler in magic, sets her scene with professional care. The big old house is a crazily built warren...
...Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Small-town tattletales embarrass the heroine's mother into insisting that Rachel's Summer be spent at home. But the vacation is ruined when Rachel discovers that Momma isn't so sure of her innocence. From a story by Charles (Lost Weekend) Jackson. With Martha Scott and Patty McCormack...