Word: aunts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sambo, Aunt Jemima, Amos and Andy--historically, blacks have been conscious of public images of themselves because these images have had a tendency to harden into stereotypes. It's difficult to gauge the importance of an image, because its effects are intangible and hard to measure. But in racial issues, image is as important as reality, because what often underlies people's actions are certain preconceptions that are too ingrained to be recognized. And in recent years black students and administrators have grown concerned about their image here...
...decked it out with orchestral preludes, choruses, solos, duos, even a quintet, in a way that indicated he probably knew the works of Weber and Flotow. The spirit of the work, though, hovers somewhere between operetta and masque. The use of ragtime is limited to exhilarating dance finales: Aunt Dinah Has Blowed de Horn at the end of Act I and A Real Slow Drag at the final curtain. Elsewhere one can find a waltz and even barbershop quartet. Infusing everything is Joplin's ear for melody, which made his rags so fetching and regaling...
Beginning in 1970, a series of personal tragedies began to overshadow Christina's playgirl path. First her maternal aunt, Eugenie Niarchos, wife of Ari's longtime shipping rival, Stavros Niarchos, died from an overdose of sleeping pills. The following year Christina suffered through her own first marriage, divorce and a brief stay at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles. Rumors of an attempted suicide began to circulate, but were vehemently denied by her family...
...melodrama in the play seems less high-flown when you have the melodrama of the author's own life and background to refer to. When you know that Hellman had an elegant aunt who was actually a morphine addict and the lover of her black chauffeur, who so resented the large loans she had made to her husband--the one who was having an affair with a Cajun girl--that she would never communicate with him except through the medium of her son Honey (a slightly off-beat character himself, who tried to rape Hellman when she was fourteen...
...aide, I would probably be as unconcerned about the plight of our aged as most 22-year-old Americans. However, since I spend my day shaving someone's grandfather, dressing someone's mother, taking someone's third cousin to the toilet, feeding someone's great-aunt, and trying to communicate with someone's father who has suffered a stroke, I often wonder who will be doing these things for me when...