Word: motherism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...delighted to read about Dr. Lovshin's conclusions concerning the "pooped" mother in your April 20 issue. I have things relatively easy since I am under 30, but as the mother of a 2½-year-old, a 17-month-old and a four-month-old, and as the foster mother of two turtles, I'm certain that I do qualify for this category. I have never heard my malady described so aptly...
...people. He is handsome beyond compare, a superintendent of the Sunday school, and gives the devotion of a medieval knight to his chronically sick wife. His son Philip is a senior in high school and is, if anything, a cut above the old block-handsome, kind, courteous, his mother's protector, his school's hero and his minister's pride. Even old Colonel Merriam, his father's boss, sees the boy's virtues, and it seems not unlikely that Philip will cut through social barriers and marry the old man's lovely, city-educated...
Little Serioja is orphaned. His father was killed in the war, his mother teaches school, and she and Serioja live with an aunt. The boy wonders about the mysteries of life, how his heart beats, or why it is almost a crime when a child breaks a dish and only an accident when a grownup does. Sleeping and waking are the tidal rhythms of a child's life. Awake, Serioja tags after older boys to the forest for a piratical, burnt-finger feast of baked potatoes and onions. Asleep, he is sprawled in his bed with an impish...
...life goes on, Serioja's mother remarries. The stepfather is a kindly sort (he is a collective-farm manager, though the novel is otherwise as apolitical as spring rain) who promises Serioja a shiny bicycle with a red lamp and silver bell. It is the boy's first love affair. There is the thrill of anticipation, the rapture of possession, satiety, neglect, then utter boredom as the bike rusts untouched in a kitchen corner. A new baby brother is expected, but the death of great-grandmother is more awesome. With compassionate wisdom, the stepfather assures the shaken...
...Brenda is beautiful, plays crack tennis and goes to Radcliffe. Her suitor, Neil Klugman, tells of his summer affair with Brenda-a daytime round of basketball, pingpong, mile runs, swimming races, and a nighttime series of assignations with Brenda. The affair ends badly for everyone, with Brenda ravished, her mother prostrated, her brother a musclebound failure in business, and her father writing gamely: "You have to have faith in your children like in a Business or any serious undertaking and there is nothing that is so bad that we can't forgive especially when Our own flesh and blood...