Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rebellion of every son against patriarchal authority. It is rooted in "man's legitimate striving for freedom and independence." That striving, when thwarted, results in a "destructive passion" which must be suppressed. The suppression, in turn, often leads to neuroses in later life. Freud believed that the mother-son Oedipus complex was inevitable. Fromm thinks that there is a way to avoid the father-son Oedipus complex: let parents be less domineering, and let them have more respect for a child's rights...
Washington could hardly wait for the trial of Countess Felicia Gizycka's suit to break the will of her mother, Publisher Eleanor Patterson of the Washington Times-Herald (TIME, Sept. 27). It promised to rattle many a family skeleton. But one afternoon last week just twelve days before the trial date, attorneys for the Countess summoned newsmen. They were handed an announcement of an agreement by all parties to settle out of court...
...settlement was to everybody's advantage. The seven executives who had inherited the paper from "Cissy" Patterson did not want their new regime hamstrung by months of legal wrangling. Countess Gizycka did not relish the unsavory process of trying to prove that her mother had not been of sound mind when she willed the paper to her top men. Under reported terms of the settlement Cissy Patterson's daughter will get no share of the Times-Herald, but she will get the mother's Long Island home and other personal property left her under the will...
...Theatre Enterprises, Inc. & Leon J. Bronesky) attempts to treat a compound social fracture-always a ticklish business. Playwright Reines's double-problem play first shows a young painter who has been blinded in the War and is bitterly unadjusted. Only when he falls in love with his mother's sympathetic, intelligent young maid does life seem worth living. Then he discovers that the maid is a Negro...
Horrified for a moment, he finds that he still loves her and wants to marry her. She, in spite of loving him, knows better about marriage-much better after she overhears his mother's fierce, shocked remonstrances. He alone refuses to give up, and when the girl goes away, he makes plans to find...