Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such a way one Hingham widow was said to have furnished her home; a Duxbury mother found a piano that served for music lessons for her four children; a Lincoln housewife found a perfectly usable playpen for her baby. To the dumps, too, come service committees from the League of Women Voters and even local politicians in search of a ready-made audience. On one recent Sunday, a crowd of happy-go-dumping Hingham residents showed up with jugs of martinis and plates of hors d'oeuvres, proceeded to make a three-martini cocktail hour...
Raisin belongs to the long and simple annals of the poor. Three generations of the Younger family are packed in a sunless Chicago South Side tenement flat. There is white-haired, wide-girthed Mother Younger (Claudia McNeil), a matriarchal Rock of Gibraltar; her son Walter Lee (Sidney Poitier), 35, who finds his chauffeur's uniform a strait jacket; his younger sister Beneatha (Diana Sands), a race-conscious progressive who wants to be a doctor; Walter's wife Ruth (Ruby Dee), who yearns for a grassy reprieve from the soot-and-asphalt jungle; and the Youngers' small...
...dream," fumes Walter, "and his wife says, 'Eat your eggs.' " Walter has the money virus; he is feverish for a partnership in a liquor store. But all the Younger dreams revolve around the $10,000 insurance money that widowed Mother is to receive. When the fateful check arrives, Mother asks little Travis to count the zeros, and then plunks down $3,500 in part payment for a house in the suburbs-an all-white suburb, as it happens. After a thwarted Walter takes to drink, and lets his pregnant wife consult an abortionist, Mother Younger gives...
...Homeric boozer, braggart and whine. With a sea-rolling gait and a gravelly brogue, Melvyn Douglas makes him an amiably puckish buffoon but scarcely a Dublin Falstaff. O'Casey's Juno has a spiny tongue for her shiftless husband, but she is also an Earth Mother of Sorrows. Her unmarried daughter becomes pregnant; her son loses an arm to the British and his life to the I.R.A. Shirley Booth puts a barbed disenchantment in her lines that neatly deflates humbug and windbag alike. But she carries her tragic life more like extra luggage than a cross...
That was 22 years ago. Since then, would-be Princetonian Knopf went to college (Union) and became vice president (sales) of the firm in which his father is board chairman and his mother president. But he still knows some rich people, and he still wants to make it on his own. Last week Publishers' Row was startled by the news that a major new publishing firm was being founded by Pat Knopf and two big bookmen-Hiram Haydn, 51, for the past three years editor in chief of Random House, and Simon Michael Bessie...