Word: ma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many controversial issues tossed at Ronald Reagan last week was the tentative settlement of the Justice Department's six-year-old antitrust suit against A T & T that had been reached during the last days of the Carter Administration. Ma Bell's competitors immediately voiced fears that Carter officials had made too many concessions to A T & T in their rush to wrap up the case before the new President took office. Said William McGowan, chairman of MCI Telecommunications, which is battling Bell for the long-distance telephone market: "It sounds like a slap on the wrist." Added...
...rolls of the snare-drum take over in the Allegro energico, ma non troppo. Mahler describes in a correspondence the hero of this last movement: "Oh him fall three blows of fate, the last of which fells him as a tree is felled." Once the seven sceptres at Armageddon come out of the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony, the scythes they raise deliver a cruel final stroke...
DIED. Beulah Bondi, 92, ever sprightly character actress who spun a 50-year career out of portrayals of sweet, tart, tetched and/or touching older women in scores of films, including the 1939 classic Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, in which she was the ma of the young Senator played by Jimmy Stewart; in Woodland Hills, Calif...
That eclecticism helps to differentiate Ma from other prodigies. He likes to do calligraphy and play chess. He is reading Don Quixote. He brings the same sense of exploration to the cello repertoire: he has performed such oddities as the concerti of Dmitri Kabalevsky and Gerald Finzi, plus his own transcription of the Brahms D minor violin sonata...
...Ma is concertizing in Europe now, and top orchestras are signing him up well into the '80s. He remains an artist-in-residence at Harvard, where his wife Jill, 27, teaches German. Last fall they played host at an old-fashioned waltz party in Leverett House. Yo-Yo spent the evening sawing away at Strauss in the student orchestra...