Word: motherless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...younger brothers, John and Michael, who accompany Peter on his personally conducted flying tour of Never Land; that dark and dreadful man, Captain Jas Hook with his syrupy voice and steel-hook hand, and his comic-strip crew of pirates; the Lost Boys, a tatterdemalion band of motherless waifs; Tiger Lily, demure princess of the Piccaninny Tribe of Indians; a popeyed, ticktocking crocodile who continually stalks the hysterically frightened Hook...
Checking on what became of the motherless foundlings, Dr. Spitz found that no fewer than 27 (or 30%) died in their first year of life, and 21 who survived their time in the home were already so scarred by life that they could only be classed as idiots. Unfortunately, he could get no data on the survival or emotional response of the 32 who were placed with foster parents. Those who died, said Dr. Spitz, suffered a gradual breakdown under stress, beginning with loss of appetite and sleeplessness, and ending with inability to withstand even minor ailments. Love-starved, they...
...October the White Lady flew away with the rest of the bats. Dubkin, motherless and batless took up with a young human female. Since his girl was no fonder of bats than his mother was, he dreaded the coming of spring, when he might have to choose between her and the White Lady...
...results were surprising. Of 25 patients, aged 10 to 66, the investigators found that almost every one had been left motherless, or had been rejected or neglected by her mother. Every one had become unhealthily dependent on her father, husband or lover. Some overcompensated for their dependence by trying to reject men, but in every case an ulcer developed when the patient was rejected by the man she deemed essential to her happiness. The most striking difference between these patients and a similar group of men, the psychiatrists found, was that most of the men managed at least a superficial...
...fiercer aspects, Joe Jones* was one, of the angriest proletarian painters of the 1930s. His canvases were packed with demonstrators, motherless waifs and starving victims of capitalist greed. In his milder moods, he turned out farm scenes in the best Midwestern tradition, with bright, theatrical coloring. Said Joe Jones, simply and violently: "I want to paint things that knock holes in walls...