Word: motherism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Calvin Coolidge. Son John, 52, Connecticut business-forms manufacturer, still remembered the upshot of his mother's purchase of a costly home-remedies book from a door-to-door fast talker. After leaving it on a table to leaf through later, she found penned on the flyleaf in Cal's handwriting: "Don't find anywhere in here a suggested cure for suckers...
...their Roman holiday, Britain's Queen Mother Elizabeth and Princess Margaret saw Pope John XXIII in a 20-minute private audience. They conversed in French, but it was later reported that the jovial Pontiff told his royal visitors: "English is the next language I shall learn!" One afternoon, before getting elegant for a dinner party, Margaret ventured forth for cocktails with a new beau. Italians were quick to read budding romance into her frequent dates with tall, retiring Prince Henry of Hesse, 31, a Protestant and a scion of the Italian House of Savoy. Henry, a talented painter...
...Allen is about as American as a man can be. Born in 1914 at Mount Pleasant, a county-seat town in southeastern Iowa, he was the second son of a successful lawyer. Alfred Van Allen, whose Dutch ancestors came to the U.S. soon after the Revolution. His mother was raised on an Iowa farm...
...better than fair first novel, although not a very robust one. It is really a school piece, full of ill-chewed borrowings from Joyce and Virginia Woolf. The hero is a sticky, artistic young man-a kind of underdone Dedalus-who rebels weakly against the smothering care of his mother. He gets some support from his friend, a medical student with the sour outlook but none of the roistering profanity of Dedalus' Buck Mulligan. But after a week's timorous escape at a seaside resort, the rebel returns and surrenders to his clucking parent...
...renowned foe of the Greeks, the great King Darius of Persia. The world he entered in 132 B.C. was one in which royal parents freely poisoned their growing sons to prevent them growing too big-and with reason. At the age of 21, Prince Mithradates of Pontus imprisoned his mother, executed his brother, married his sister and mounted the throne...