Word: mother
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...associate professor of history and director of medieval and Byzantine studies at Catholic University in Washington, D.C. A Holyoke alumna, Kennan believes that only in women's colleges can women develop the strength to deal with the "crosscutting responsibilities of family life." As a wife and mother, Kennan knows first hand about those responsibilities. She also finds time to ride her two horses, one of which is named Bishop. "If I want to get away," she says, "I can just say I'm out with the bishop...
Echelon is dedicated to Roschin's mother. As a boy (he is now 44), he rode with his mother on one of the special trains allocated by the Soviets to evacuate women and children to the east. An ingenious boxlike contraption, open-sided toward the audience, creates the impression of a cattle car in which the animals happen to be human...
With few exceptions, this is a train of women without men. Some are inconsolable, some lapse into abrasively catty humor. The car commander is Galina (Bettye Fitzpatrick), and she has more of the instincts of a den mother than a party official. Her chief worry is Katya (Cristine Rose), who spends most of the play catatonically desolated by the absence of her husband. Galina's chief ally in rallying group morale is Masha (Bella Jarrett), a gutsy fighter who can issue a pep talk that would blister a slacking football team...
...lines of character and desperation are simply and painfully sketched. A young boy watches his mother become a prostitute in order to get a work permit she needs to feed her family. A man tries to participate in an illegal strike. Another watches his father die because he couldn't call an ambulance--there are few telephones in the black townships. They are stories that ring true, stories that have been told often enough by black South Africans. But they are still powerful, dramatic episodes; the audience is forced to come to terms once again with what systematically imposed injustice...
Some California exiles are more cynical about hot tubs and their devotees. To Wayne Koestenbaum '80, hot tubbers are "a certain genre of people. Men who write poetry to get in touch with the feminine in themselves, women who want to get back to Mother Earth, who want harmony in their bodies... people interested in exploring every sensuous possibility there...