Word: mother
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...around the Boston home of Andrew Gaines that when eldest Daughter Donna told him she was flying off to Europe to be in a production of Hair, she got her face slapped soundly. "Daddy," she pleaded, "this is my big chance. Shirley Temple was a little kid. Did her mother stop her?" Dad's riposte, or his reaction to 1) her marriage to an Austrian actor from Hair, 2) her divorce in 1974 or 3) his first hearing of Love to Love You Baby are not a matter of public record. But snapshots of Mom and Dad enclosed...
Karla Kuskin's A Space Story (Harper & Row; $6.95) mixes the wandering spirit of science fiction with the unalterable facts of astronomy. Gazing at a night full of stars. Sam asks his mother what kind of people could possibly live out there. Galaxies away, another boy gazes out at a different sky and wonders what kind of people could possibly live out there...
...Devil's Playground, an adolescent boy is shaped by his need to rebel against an emotionally repressive, provincial Catholic seminary. In The Last Wave, a middle-class lawyer is afflicted by sleep-splitting precognitive visions of approaching apocalypse. In Caddie, a young mother leaves her philandering husband and struggles to keep herself and her children alive as she descends into a Dickensian lower-class world. In The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith, a 19th century black man is finally maddened by the mindless cruelty and patronization of the dominant group and goes on a murderous rampage...
Joining the Volscian commander Aufidius (Julian Glover), Coriolanus leads an army toward Rome, determined to burn the city. Only the heart-wrenching plea of his mother Volumnia (Maxine Audley) deters him, after which Aufidius slays...
...narrow, his delivery of the lines is imperious in tone and cloudless in clarity. Heroic in bearing, he also conveys a sensual relish in the blood sport of war. Best of all, he tempers Coriolanus' abrasive arrogance by showing the soldier's moral consistency. After his mother has urged him to placate the plebs, he counters...