Word: mother
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...supporters gathered with a strong sense of urgency. One Philadelphia woman had organized a caravan of 51 buses carrying 2,200 people; another brought four generations of her family, including her 70-year-old mother, three daughters and an 18-month-old granddaughter...
Although Shcharansky, 30, had been spared the death penalty, his trial and conviction raised questions around the world about the benefits of Carter's zealous espousal of the human rights cause in the Soviet Union. But at the end of the trial, Shcharansky's mother, Ida Milgrom, 70, indicated that Russia's dissidents are thankful for Carter's support. Although shaken by the predictable verdict, the diminutive white-haired woman stood outside the Moscow courtroom in a light summer rain and read a message to Carter before Western correspondents: ''During the painful days of the trial I have not left...
...street about a mile from the Kremlin. Although the trial was billed as "open" by Soviet authorities, gray-uniformed militiamen and civilian volunteer policemen stood behind iron barriers, blocking entry to the courtroom to all but a specially selected few. Pleading vainly to be let through was Shcharansky's mother, who may never see her son again. She wept openly, saying, "Not to be allowed into the courtroom is a mockery of a mother; it is sadistic torture...
...Ginzburg, whose mother is Jewish, is a fervent con vert to the Russian Orthodox Church...
...Pittsburgh Symphony under André Previn, Rosen was elated by his second-time-around victory. "Before, I was examining the style of others," he said. "This time, I was much more intense, concentrated." He began playing the cello at six when his father, an amateur violist, and his mother, a pianist, started their son practicing in hopes of gaming an addition to their family chamber group. At 13, he made his debut with a symphony orchestra in Redlands, Calif., and began studying with Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky...