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...dominating figure in the play is Bessie Berger (Joan Lorring), an abrasively dislikable Momma Portnoy. Her ineffectual husband Myron (Salem Ludwig) sums up a lifetime of quiet desperation when he tells his son, "Don't think life's easy with Momma." Like many another line in the play, it lingers in the air with Chekhovian sadness, like a note struck on an unseen piano. Even though Myron is U.S.-born, he is a prototype of the immigrant father who was held in contempt if he failed economically, and derided as a philistine if he succeeded, often...
Whites were generally quite upset. Some yelled "Black bastards, go back to Africa," but the answers they received were similar to "Charlie, your momma swings to "Charlie, your momma swings through trees and she's as Black as me," and "Why don't you come into the gate and get your trashy sister off South Campus." Obviously tempers snapped. As the poor whites rushed towards the gates, they were dismissed summarily by both the Black students' security force and the College Security, which was powerless to remove the BPRSC but which did prevent some white students from getting hurt...
...reaction when the others discovered the picture halfway through a concert. During a two-year period just before World War II, the men showed up every day for rehearsal, but never practiced a note. Kroyt's daughter accidentally discovered why and reported back to her mother: "Momma, they're playing bridge...
...because some of them showed up and "didn't really sketch at all, but just looked at the model in a-well, in a disturbing way." In Grand Rapids, he reads a letter sent by a G.I. who died in Viet Nam: "Don't worry about me, Momma, all the Viet Congs in the world couldn't keep me from coming home...
...Umph! And there is no escaping them; they rock around the ticktock. At 6 a.m. each weekday, several thousand Baltimoreans begin their day with a chorus of earsplitting chimes and 300-lb. Fat Daddy shouting: "Hear me now! Let me sock it to ya, Momma! From the depths of a fat man's soul, a golden oldie from outa the past with a star-studded cast! A WWIN radio blast! Shep and the Heartbeats! Eeetiddlydee! Come...