Word: motheral
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...violinist for the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the retired associate director of the Boston Pops. Her home was a lively one, with musicians and artists as frequent guests. At an early age she took up modern dance, and later became a teacher of it. Her nickname comes from her mother's friend, the vivacious actress Kitty Carlisle Hart...
Eden William '91, whose mother and father stillbelong to a national Black sorority and fraternityrespectively, says she does not want to joinherself. "It is too bad [Black frats] still exist.It's more detrimental to race relations than it isbeneficial. I can understand the initial bondingwhich takes place, but when they get to be sostrict in terms of only associating with eachother, that's when you begin to question theirpurpose...
WORKERS have called the exposed stairwell of Carpenter Center "a mother's nightmare" for years now, but never with the conviction they used this week. What in the past had seemed merely a risky spot for small children suddenly showed itself for it was--a dangerous safety hazard in gross violation of existing building codes. The nearly three-foot gaps in the railing left plenty of room for a three-year-old to tumble about 12 feet to a concrete floor; he was treated for wrist and head wounds and was released the same day. The most appalling part...
...could salve your soul and scare you to tears. Alone in the dark, awed by images bigger and bolder than any dream, children shuddered through a skein of traumas that Walt had devised for them: the outrage of kidnaping (Pinocchio), the ridicule of deformity (Dumbo), the death of a mother (Bambi). Long before the '80s scourge of slasher movies, Disney's were the true horror films, offering primal nightmares and blessed release. And the young were their eager victims. When Snow White premiered at Radio City Music Hall, the management reportedly had to reupholster the seats because they were...
...good manners in my house." But as this fascinating, sharply observed biography makes clear, courage and an edged wit were not Alice Longworth's only strong qualities. She was also unfailingly selfish and intermittently cruel. The ruling event of her life came shortly after her birth, when her young mother died of kidney disease. Her father, then a rising New York State politician, treated the baby with coldness. Two years later, he married an unsympathetic woman named Edith Carow, who took care to let the child know that her mother had been stupid and boring...