Word: mama
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...over; it serves as a background, an aural prop for the kind of good-time life she would like to think she's leading. She, like most of the "regulars" who show up that night, is a drifter whose fever to move on turns her into a garrulous, unattractive mama, every time she stops her trailer, her loneliness drives her to shack up with any man she can find, but her cares are always divorced from the present...
Coming in peace, coming in joy, coming in love." --Mama Cass...
...formed a vocal group and made his living by touring his show. In New York City in the '60s, he staged some experimental pieces off-off-Broadway that used speech and sound "as a contrapuntal device rather than a literal communication form." In one play at the Cafe La Mama, Ellen Stewart's seminal theater of experiment, he dressed a young man playing Adam entirely in Reynolds Wrap. God, looking like W.C. Fields, appeared onstage from the midst of the audience and tore off the foil...
...control him or if they had satisfied his curiosity about the world and himself in other ways, George Jackson's life in Chicago might have taken a vastly different form. However, as it was, it became polarized: "In effect, I lived two lives, the one with my mama and sisters, and the thing on the street. Now and then I'd get caught at something...and my mama would fall all over me. I left home a thousand times never to return. We hoboed up and down the state. I did what I wanted (all my life I've done...
...knowingly or by instinct?have an easier time with their youngsters when they reward good behavior instead of punishing bad. Explains Skinner: "If a mother goes to her baby only when he yells, she reinforces fussing. But when she goes to him while he's happy and perhaps saying 'Mama' softly, the baby will always speak to her that...