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...what the Avatar couldn't do in a year, but what the New York City Tactical Police Force did in one night at Columbia. With a series of harrassments in which police officers didn't let hippies sit on the Boston Common or stand idle in the streets around Beacon Hill and in which over 200 arrests have been made, the city has given the hip people something to feel together about...
...Russell refuses to develop themes, instead skates surfaces. The ending of his celebrated affair with Lady Ottoline Morrell, for example, glides without distinct definition into his tempestuous life with Lady Constance Malleson. Writes Russell: "I want personal love to be like a beacon fire lighting up the darkness, not a timid refuge from the cold as it is very often . . . Oh, I am happy, happy, happy." He passes with equal vagueness from his second marriage to Dora Black and the first joys of paternity at the age of 49 through the divorce and into his third marriage to Patricia Spence...
Knight's home base is in Akron, where he inherited the Beacon Journal from his father in 1933. Every month he travels to one of his newspapers for a day's consultation. He reads all his papers every day, insists that every editorial be initialed so that he will know who writes it. His favorite activity comes each Thursday, when he closets himself in his office and works on his weekly column, for which he won the Pulitzer. Although he is a conservative, he has been a consistent opponent of the Viet Nam war; for the past year...
...League, the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, the Boston Park Department Office. The Offices of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts. The Massachusetts State House, The Unitarian-Universalist Association, The Massachusetts Prison Association, Portia Law School and Calvin Coolidge College all sit on the peak of Beacon Hill. It is a tiny two-block neighborhood and for the most part, the institutions that reside there are devoted to enriching the lot of human beings. "So," says one Beacon St. resident, "how did Calvin Coolhitch Cowitch evah get up heah...
...dean, the graduate division was closed up in the mid-60's, but the school's reputation increased only slightly. Calvin Coolidge College is still completely unaccredited, it has only three full-time faculty members for its one hundred students and operates out of an old weary Beacon Hill House...