Word: blum
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Nothing Left to Lose--a new book by tow recent Harvard graduates, Jeffrey D. Blum and Judith E. Smith--attempts to describe some of what the Sanctuary counselling staff has learned about Cambridge street people through first-hand encounters. It is the sort of book that one hopefully imagines might be possible: Informal in style: occasionally polemical yet consistently self-critical about its own biases: sympathetic to the real lives of the people it describes; and very sensible about what can be done to make things better. Perhaps one reason that Nothing Left to Lose is so good is that...
...BLUM AND SMITH recount the story of a 19 year-old who "came to Cambridge to be a hippie" with his leather-working tools and a smile for everyone. By the end of the summer--his tools stolen, wasted from hunger and too much bad dope, arrested several times by the police--he was in a mental hospital. As the authors describe over and over, the hippie myth carried by the summer travellers "Is continually at odds with the survival requirements of life on the Cambridge Common." This dialectic yields so bizarre a synthesis as James, an ace Volkswagen...
...survive. The Sanctuary staff is close enough in age and temperament to the kids it counsels that it can admit their uncertainty and alienation. What can these kids do with themselves with no money, in a country such as this? What will work? Where do you draw the line? Blum and Smith recall the dilemma of establishing some kind of Legitimate moral authority in the storefront...
...ANCIEN REGIME", as Blum and Smith call the world the street people have fled, is maintained through and ideology of self denial. Working class kids end up at Sanctuary because at some point they got fed up, and decided they had a right to something better than a warped home life, or a nine-to-five job, or a reform school. They decided that they had a right to be happy. Nothing Left to Lose and the counselling program it describes, are structure around a similar declaration of right. It is a fine book, and a very honest one--full...
...star squads. Foil men Gary Pepper, Bob Berger, and Greg Gall, along with sabre fencers Bruce Soriano, George Bartos, and Tom Losonszy were the Lion's all-league selections. Penn's Ernesto Fernandez and Brooke Makler combined with Tatrallyay to make up the epee team. Yale's Steve Blum and Princeton's Rich Lawrence in sabre and foil, respectively, rounded out the all-star selections...