Word: motherism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...message should go directly to the Dalai Lama instead of being reverently submitted through his Cabinet. It was even worse to demand that the Living Buddha attend a meeting alone without his ceremonial train of senior abbots and court officials. On hearing the news, the Dalai Lama's mother burst into tears. Thousands of weeping women surged around the Indian consulate general and begged the consul to accompany them while they handed a protest petition to the Red Chinese. The monks of the city's three great lamaseries prepared to die before letting the Dalai Lama be taken...
...March 17 the Dalai Lama, his mother, sister and two brothers, guarded by a fanatic escort, slipped out of Lhasa and moved north, where there were few Chinese patrols. Traveling only at night, the party carefully circled the city and headed south toward the Indian border. On March 19 the fighting started...
...night before, she was still plain Miss Shoda, but from the moment her mother called her at 5 the next morning, she was already "Your Highness." "Take care of yourself," said a relative who had come to see her off, "when you go over there." A little after 6 a.m.. her eyes blinking back the tears, Michiko Shoda, 24, bowed stiffly to her parents, entered the antique maroon Mercedes-Benz sent by the palace, and was off to begin her life "over there" as the first commoner in 2,600 years to wed a future Emperor of Japan...
...part in an ABC network soaper called Hawkins Falls, lasted 2½ years before she was tapped for Puppeteer Nellé's show. A miracle of poise on camera, the Blue Fairy is still a refreshingly down-to-earth teen-ager offstage. Celebrating the Peabody with her mother at Chicago's glossy Pump Room, Brigid downed two full dinners, including two bowls of whipped cream for dessert. The professional goodies are just starting. After the Peabody Award last week, the Blue Fairy is almost a sure bet for a network time slot soon...
Mary Graydon's mother conveys all the wit and essential fatigue of this intelligently vague woman who could only manage to be Christian in one direction at a time. Her brood--the handsome Humphrey (Joel Crothers) and the over-eager Nicholas (Paul Ronder)--are more than adequately rakish and frenetically inept, respectively; and to say this family gathering seems unusual would be extreme understatement...