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Rats in the Cordage. When Wilson writes about a woman, the malice is tangibly thick: "Her heavy amber earrings and amber necklace, her dyed black hair done in earphones so dead and scurfy that one felt that if they were lifted moths would fly out of them, her dreadful arch smile . . ." Are such caricatures intended to portray poor old Britannia? The tone is wrong for a grand historical novel; the sound is not of a foundering vessel but of rats in the stores and cordage...
...converted; it has a way of repeating itself without offering many new ideas. It does bring off a certain humor each issue-a quality that recommends it to readers who are otherwise appalled by its politics. The liveliest section of the magazine, "The Week," consists of random notes, arch and wry, on a variety of consequential and not so consequential topics...
...Interim Report on Racial Imbalance signed in 1964 by the heads of Brandeis, Northeastern, Boston University, MIT, and the Christian Science Monitor, and by Boston's Roman Catholic leader, Arch. Carinal Cushing, indicated that there were 45 schools in Boston with over 50 per cent non-white, 28 with over 80 per cent, 16 with 96 per cent or above. Among the highest in the city: the William Lloyd Garrison School, with 96.8 per cent non-white. One school (the Hyde) had 99.1 per cent. One: 99.5 per cent. One (the Lewis annex) did not have one child...
...Moving agrees, points to Eero Saarinen's St. Louis Gateway Arch and the new Picasso in Chicago (TIME, Aug. 25) as evidence of the trend toward monumental sculpture. "We're slowly coming back," Hoving believes, "to sculpture as something to be interested in. It's part of the conversational environment. As more cities solve their problems, they will want to make things look better with sculpture." But if sculpture is going to take its rightful place in the modern cityscape, it will have to acquire for itself the very qualities of scale, materials, tools and technology that...
Tucked beneath the bluffs along the Mississippi on its Illinois shore, East St. Louis (pop. 80,000) is a squalid reach of crumbling brick buildings, battered frame shacks and sleazy taverns, redeemed only by a view of St. Louis' soaring Gateway Arch across the river. Poverty workers estimate that an appalling 65% of East St. Louis' housing is substandard; a full 21% of the work force is unemployed; nearly a third of the city's families-55%-60% of them Negroes-are on some form of relief. Fine kindling for riot, and last week Firebrand...