Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These days, during the show's Boston tryout, the entire adult company of The Miracle Worker treats Patty as their professional peer. They hardly remember her age until, at her mother's insistence, she knocks off like a good little girl for her afternoon...
ALMOST a century ago a Belgian knight named Fritz Mayer van den Bergh began collecting art objects. He concentrated on Northern Renaissance examples, amassed some 1,000 pieces of high quality before his death in 1901. To hold the collection as a memorial, his mother founded the Mayer van den Bergh Museum. Tucked away in Antwerp's banking district and unchanged in 55 years, the museum is open every day except Monday in the summertime, and on even-numbered days all winter, charges only 5 francs (10?) admission. Yet the number of visitors annually is under...
Then Sapphire's brother (Earl Cameron), a physician from Warwickshire, steps into the detective's office wearing the resigned half-smile of the perennial underdog. His skin is as dark as Sapphire's was fair. "Our mother was black; our father was white," he explains. "You never know how it's going...
Mary Shelley came by her headstrong ways naturally. Her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, was a brilliant champion of women's rights and social revolution. Her father, William Godwin, was also one of the morning stars of reason and reform in the last years of the 18th century. Both advocated free love and reluctantly ignored their teaching to marry just five months before their daughter's birth. Yet from the day of her elopement, Mary Shelley suffered continual persecution not only from Shelley's family, but also from her own father, whose contempt for convention stopped abruptly...
Look Back in Anger. The angry young hero (Richard Burton) boils over with indiscriminate rage at religion, the Sunday Times, his mother-in-law. Somehow the John Osborne play seemed saner on the stage than it does on the screen-but with Claire Bloom and Gary Raymond to help, the movie has its moments...