Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cloutier named the scholarship in honor of hislate mother, Lucile C. Cloutier, whom he saidnurtured his educational interests...
...best advice may be the same that your mother gave you--and that Sister Mary Aloysius, former dietitian at the Mankato, Minn., convent, has been giving the sisters there for the past 30 years: Eat a balanced diet, including plenty of beans and leafy green vegetables. The advice may be the same, but Mary Aloysius reports that ever since the nuns heard about Snowdon's folate findings, they have been crowding around the salad...
...surprisingly, perhaps, Martin's homelife suffered--both his parents wanted to see more of him, and his father asked him to choose between him and his mother. Hurt and angered by the ultimatum, Martin stopped talking to his father for almost a decade. A few years ago, they reconciled...
...between high art and low, merging an encyclopedic knowledge of art history, mythology and language to put her original spin on such subjects as Joan of Arc, the female form and, most famously, fairy tales. Her 1994 From the Beast to the Blonde was a sort of search for Mother Goose: a look at the (mainly female) tellers of fairy tales that is filled with such tidbits as why Bluebeard's beard was blue--it is the color of both desire and melancholy, "the marvellous and the inexplicable." Now Warner has published a sequel, No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling...
...daughter of an Italian mother and a British bookseller father, Warner grew up in Cairo and Brussels before being sent to an English convent school from ages 9 to 17. Though she eventually, painfully, rejected her faith, she says she is still discovering the ways in which Catholicism shaped her. The daily prayers and occasional retreats, those "thrilling" stories about saints, all that icon worship and "the discipline of identification with the suffering body of Christ," she says, "wakened my image-making tendencies...