Word: ma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sadness clings to Sellers, despite his achievements and despite the comfortable life they have brought him. The beginnings of the curse of self-abnegation and its palliative role playing are to be found in his childhood. He is, on his mother's side, third-generation show biz. His grandmother, Ma Ray, was a performer-manager in the music halls, a minor legend as the first to bring swimmers onstage in a glass tank. Peter's mother, Peg, worked for Ma most of her life, acquiring in the grimy backstages of the provinces an ambition for stardom, which, when...
...mandates that students be educated in the least restrictive environment possible, and that, where feasible, handicapped children should be educated with their normal peers. But for many handicapped children their public school systems are inadequate, and an alternative for many is the Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, Ma. The goal of Perkins is to teach its students not only academics, but the skills of daily and independent living as well...
Emmett Williams' "Incidental Music for Yo-Yo Ma"--Ivan Tcherepnin and Yo-Yo Ma; Carpenter Center...