Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...major concern of an articulate, honey-skinned feminist named Beth Jacobs. Born 41 years ago, and one of six children, she is now a member of the island's Legislative Council, the wife of a doctor popular among the island's U.S. tourists, and the mother of two. Beth Jacobs is first of all in favor of marriage; secondly, she proposes to cut the rate of illegitimate births by contraception. The ideals of Planned Parenthood, U.S.-style ("Every child a wanted child"), baffle many a Jamaican sire, but the Beth Jacobs Clinic does its best to spread...
...Manhattan's off-Broadway Royal Playhouse, Anna's little breadwinner is on the boards again, in its first New York revival since 1924. With riotous good faith and not the hint of a blush, Fashion trots out the family Tiffany, a nouveau riche clan headed by a mother given to haughty generalizations on the conduct of the "ee-light" and a father whose financial eminence is largely due to his skill at forgery. The Tiffanys hope to marry their daughter off to a French count, who. of course, turns out to be bogus; the Tiffanys' unprepossessing servant...
...daughter and son-in-law were not told that the old folks were actually back in The Netherlands, were given to understand they would only be chatting on the transatlantic phone. With the stage thus set, the old and young couples were brought together before the microphones. Seeing her mother, daughter Tine Mak, who is pregnant, promptly collapsed. Seeing her son-in-law, Margaretha Muylaert cried: "I think he's a horrid fellow." Son-in-law Adriaan Mak, a headwaiter, turned to a KLM representative and said angrily: "I told you this would happen, but you wouldn...
...show's end shattered airline and radio officials at last found time to listen to Adriaan Mak's story. His wife and her mother Margaretha had fought so constantly that Margaretha had become "psychologically labile," his wife had lost their first two children through miscarriages (apparently due to nervous strain). Mother Muylaert, who seemed about ready to scoot back to Canada, added a final touch of endearment. Holland, she told the press, is "a horrible country...
...story begins in Benares, where the family has taken quarters in a poor but respectable part of the city. The father, a priest and a scholar, puts in a long day as a religious teacher on the banks of the holy Ganges. The mother struggles to make a home in a strange new world, to observe the country decencies and obey the laws of caste. But how can she keep her son Apu, now ten, from running wild in the swarming streets...