Word: ma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Board warning, placed in a weekly administration publication and threatening harsher punishment if another such protest occurs, has prompted charges from Law students that the body is not practicing the constitutional dog ma the Law School preaches...
...decades the telephone company has been known as a place where hardly anyone ever got fired. My, how Ma Bell has changed. Last week American Telephone and Telegraph announced that between now and the end of 1986 it plans to cut its work force by 24,000, possibly the largest single sloughing in American corporate history...
Plans for the event, which have been under consideration since 1978, also include 60 to 70 University-wide symposia on current research and needs at Harvard, several concerts by world-famous cellist Yo Yo Ma '76, plays at the Loeb and Agassiz Theaters, and special commemorative displays at University museums and libraries...
...then, parents, the important thing is to stay calm. You've seen Ma- donna wiggling on MTV -- right, she's the pop-tart singer with the trashy outfits and the hi-there belly button. What is worse, your children have seen her. You tell your daughters to put on jeans and sweatshirts, like decent girls, and they look at you as if you've just blown in from the Planet of the Creeps. Twelve-year-old girls, headphones blocking out the voices of reason, are running around wearing T shirts labeled VIRGIN, which would not have been necessary 30 years...
...power of the play comes from the barely suppressed rage of its central characters: Ma Rainey (Theresa Merritt), a fierce, massive singer who has reacted to prejudice by creating an isolated world in which she need not tolerate the least compromise, and her backup trumpet player (Charles Dutton), a keenly ambitious composer-arranger who is fixated on the memory of his mother's rape by white thugs. When these two potent wills clash, the bystander who suffers is, inevitably, one of their own and not a white oppressor. Episodic and slow but vividly real in portraying even minor characters, Ma...