Word: stephen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Stephen's mother won custody of him in the divorce and forbade him to have any contact with his father. "She would have members of her family follow me to see if I met him in secret," he recalls. "She would telephone his apartment to see if I answered, then hang up. I was a substitute for him, and she took out all her anger and craziness on me. From her I get my tendency to hysteria. It was not a great relationship." It never improved: Sondheim has helped his mother financially but has gone through long periods...
...couple of years after the divorce, however, Sondheim's mother made a doting gesture that transformed his life. Stephen, then 12, had made a new friend named Jamie Hammerstein, son of Oscar, the lyricist of Very Warm for May, and was invited to the family farm in Doylestown, Pa., for a weekend. The weekend turned into a summer and, not long after, Mrs. Sondheim bought a house in Doylestown so Stephen could live there year-round. She continued to commute to Manhattan, often stayed there during the week and on weekends typically brought along guests. But as Jamie Hammerstein recalls...
With his piercing intelligence and emotional candor, Stephen Sondheim reigns as master of the Broadway musical theater...
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When lawyers "cease to see themselves as having a special mission in American society, they will begin to devalue the importance of holding on to an ethical norm," says New York University Law Professor Stephen Gillers. One possible result will be more regulation from outside, through courts, administrative agencies and even public shaming in the press. In the effort to turn into lean and mean competitors, firms have been cutting away the fat. They may be shedding something more valuable...