Word: mama
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...indefatigable financial foes, the bull and the bear, locked in mortal combat. The bear seems to be losing, which is precisely what happened in the market last week. After a long, cold summer, the Big Board experienced its most dramatic one-day advance in three years. And papa bears, mama bears and baby bears, all of whom had been betting on a continued decline, suddenly found themselves running for cover...
...have to live my reviews. I have something else to go home to"-meaning a husband, Canadian Conductor-Violinist Eugene Kash, and five children, aged two to ten. While most female opera singers shun childbirth for fear that it will some how hurt their voices, Mama Maureen insists that it has extended her range by 21 notes on top and 21 on the bottom, "one for each baby." She travels ten months of the year, with bookings arranged so that she can pop home to Toronto. In one recent six-day period, she jetted from San Francisco to Toronto...
Fresh off the boat from Italy, gourd-shaped Giulio Gatti-Casazza heads straight for Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera. As the newly appointed general manager of the Met, he is eager to have a look at his new home. Mama mia! What he sees is enough to curl his beard. It's bad enough that the exterior looks like a brewery. But the backstage area is so cramped that it can hardly accommodate a P.T.A. pageant. Principal singers, he finds to his horror, have to rehearse in the ladies' powder room; scenery is stacked behind the building...
...career was the very opposite of the standard American success story at the beginning of the century. He used to start with money and end up broke. This made life pretty grim in the squalid East Harlem tenement in Manhattan where Papa, a Russian-Jewish immigrant tailor, had settled Mama and his eight kids. But somehow the Levensons never despaired about waging their own American Revolution in the fourth floor back. Particularly Mama. When things looked blackest, she would start a fire in the stove, put a pot of water on to boil, and say, "He who gave us teeth...
When it came to exalting personal honor, behavior and character in the face of depressing surroundings, Mama Levenson had one surefire blunderbuss in her arsenal. She fought dirt because of its corrupting influence not only on floors and walls ("Her fight against dirt was based on the premise that circumstances make poor, but people make dirt") but on human moral fiber as well. Mama and Papa both believed, furthermore, that children should be disciplined with whatever was handy-shaving strops, wooden ladles, rolled-up newspapers-instead of psychology. Writes Levenson: "I didn't know that fathers were not supposed...