Word: motherism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bronx, the cops found the two leaders rummaging for food in a garbage can. The knife-wielding Cape Man was a soft-faced tough named Salvador Agron. just turned 16. His mother and stepfather, a part-time Pentecostal minister of a storefront church, had sent the boy to live in, Harlem with a 17-year-old married sister whose husband had deserted her. Young Agron had been in scrapes with the police before. Umbrella Man was a surly 17-year-old named Antonio Hernandez, whose stepmother and father (a hotel worker) live in a filthy Harlem flat. He had left...
Next day Harris tried to retract his resignation, but the bishop would hear no more of it. Going down to Surrey last week, he locked the doors of St. Andrew's and called a meeting of 120 parish leaders in the parish mother church, All Saints. When everyone was assembled, the bishop barred the doors to Harris sympathizers, gave his audience an angry lecture. For 20 minutes he thundered of "lawlessness and disloyalty" and "doctrines that undermined the position of the Church of England," to the accompaniment of noisy rattlings on the doors...
...Nate was a crew chief in the Army Air Corps when he heard the call to the mission field. The 21-year-old, who had been hipped on airplanes since he was eleven, wrote to his mother and sister: "The Lord clipped my wings ... it seemed logical to suppose that an inherent yen to fly defied the Lord's will, but He said 'no!' " As his letter was on its way home, another from his father crossed its path with a clipping about an organization called the Christian Airmen's Missionary Fellowship. Now renamed the Missionary...
Facing Up. In Chicago, Raymond C. Van Dam sued his ex-in-laws for $1,000,000 for alienating his wife's affections, charged that his mother-in-law had advised her daughter not to have children because they might look like...
Corrupt Priests. With care and cynicism, Author Stacton builds his theory. Egypt's priesthood, Ikhnaton's mother reflects at one point, was "a series of venal officials ... a branch of the police, and only slightly more corrupt." Yet she is well aware that "corruption is the price we have to pay for order." Her son might have realized it too, had he possessed only that measure of insanity normal to a bloodline transmitted for generations through the marriage of brother and sister. But when the priests of Amon, in the traditional coronation ceremony, pushed the new Pharaoh alone...