Word: motherism
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...hundred poets lived and wrote, I tried to memorize a few of the poems myself. I had got as far as the third (in fact, I never got further) when I went to dinner at a teacher's house one night and discovered that the teacher's mother - a city social worker - was a Hyakunin Isshu fan. She humored me by asking me to recite the beginning of one of the poems to see if she could finish it. I proudly trotted out the third poem, in which the 7th century Kakinomoto no Hitomaro uses the metaphor of a mountain...
...close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting. And yet while sorrow is certain, fear is not. "She had a very good death," a friend says of her mother, and I have an idea of what she means and don't hear it as a shrug of denial or contradiction...
...sketches of Mother Teresa made a lasting impression at the Vatican and earned portrait artist George Pollard a commission to paint a likeness of John Paul II--just one of the 5,000 portraits Pollard created in his lifetime, many of prominent leaders, athletes and entertainers. The unassuming Wisconsin native painted John F. Kennedy, Muhammad Ali, Hank Aaron and Harry S Truman--who quipped upon seeing his portrait, "I think you flattered me just right." Pollard...
...suggest TIME give up the charade and change the name of the magazine to Obama Weekly. The timing and tone of your cover story on Obama's mother made your April 21 issue look more like a campaign p.r. piece than legitimate news story. Something tells me I shouldn't hold my breath waiting for soft-focus, warm-and-fuzzy cover stories about the mothers of Hillary Clinton and John McCain. Katherine Whan, DECATUR...
...Perfect Mommy” reads more like a brainwashing brochure than an educational pamphlet. Despite undergoing several serious procedures, each with possible complications, the fictional mother emerges looking like a mildly bruised Stepford wife, a single dainty bandage running across her nose...