Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little girl and the grown woman seemed to recognize each other at once. Like Anne's, Patty Duke's childhood belonged to the streets of New York. Her father (a taxi driver) and her mother (a checker at Schrafft's) were separated; before Patty got her first TV roles, the family teetered on the edge of poverty. In Miracle Worker, it was Anne to whom Patty looked for approval; it was Anne who became her particular pal. Soon, says Arthur Penn, "Patty and Anne were carrying on conversations in the manual alphabet behind our backs, cracking jokes...
...swore helplessly under her breath, Patty promptly began making her "noises," the grunts of the speechless, to cover Anne's indiscretion. When Anne finally whispered, "I'm going to shove you out the window," Patty made the drop and managed to make her way to her stage mother...
...Virginian." The needs of cotton, his father's health, and melodrama send Allan at twelve to live among his mother's kin on Boston's Beacon Street. Are his principles as a gallant son of the South in danger? They are, and soon there is the fateful passage: "Uncle William, you must help me. I have been reading Uncle Tom's Cabin." Yankee Uncle William promptly takes young Allan to an abolitionist meeting, where Allan learns from an escaped slave: "Yes, Virginian, there is a Simon Legree...
TIME WALKED, by Vera Panovo. Russian Author Panova, writing with unostentatious excellence, has both the compassion and the mother wit to describe the world of a six-year-old-and to recall an existence that most grownups have forgotten...
Helen Hayes and Patty Duke repeat (in a new production) One Red Rose for Christmas, Paul Horgan's 1958 success about a mother superior and an orphan...