Word: mama
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Oriental serenity that envelops the play. There is a speech of Widow Faulk's in which she tells of overhearing Shannon's account of how his mother caught him practicing "the little boy's vice" and spanked him with a hairbrush for angering "both God and Mama." Shannon's explanation of his adult behavior is that he "got back at God by preaching atheistical sermons and got back at Mama by starting to lay young girls.'' Then there is what Williams calls "the dunghill speech," a not-for-the-squeamish passage in which Shannon...
...liberal; foreign aid and military spending have failed; the Alliance for Progress is doomed because poverty isn't the cause of Communism; Christianity is too uninformed and trusting to combat Communism; and anyone venturing into the world without being "informed" is likely to be molested intellectually unless Mama Schwarz warns them about evil men with candy. In good American idiom, Schwarz is a slippery character...
...London, Oh, Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You In the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad closed shortly after it opened in the spring of 1961. It received mixed reviews; the Observer called the play great, the production poor...
Savoring the full careless rapture of having no parents ("Do we get any money for being orphans?" asks the boy hopefully), the children go for a make believe bus ride. The conductor looks suspiciously like Papa, and a back-seat passenger like Mama. Delicately, Wilder suggests each child's need to love the thing he kills, especially parents. The wayward bus ride has its own hazards-jaywalkers, Indians, floods-and it gives Wilder a chance for a stalwart reflection on the business of living: "Fight. Struggle. Survive...
...tour the Queen attended state receptions, inspected hospitals, reviewed troops in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Gambia. At a ceremonial durbar in the Sierra Leone provincial town of Bo, some of the paramount chiefs got so high on palm wine that they had to be carried to greet "Mama Queen II" (Queen Victoria was Mama Queen...