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William H. Lazonick, assistant professor of Economics and a member of URPE, said yesterday that close to 400 people, mostly Boston-area students and professors, participated in the conference...
Those of you who didn't make it to hear Bob the Bagman--the twenty year veteran of Boston-area bumming--on the view from the gutter really missed something. Although, as one spectator put it, Bob's twenty years on the streets have given him a "detached mental process," his opinions were original and stimulating. After graduating from Purdue, Bob kept his mind agile by "sleeping close to the ground, where the air is richer." (Beware, apartment dwellers.) Like Socrates, he wandered across the land expounding his simple rules of living. He listens to the birds, and "smartest animals...
...Wall have concentrated on obtaining recent and rarely shown works by the best artists working in animation. Several of the short subjects come from the Ottawa International Festival of Animation, "the equivalent of Cannes to the animation world," according to the program notes. Works by European and local Boston-area directors are included. Most of the works run under ten minutes. The shortest, All in a Woman's Day and Success Without College, by two Hampshire College students, are pithy visual epigrams that last not much longer than it takes to blink...
...State Senator Wes Watkins, 37, of Ada, Okla., who had a harder job defeating five other Democrats in the primary than he did in whomping Republican Challenger Dr. Gerald Beasley Jr., 50. The new Speaker of the House will be Thomas P. ("Tip") O'Neill Jr., 63, the burly, Boston-area Irish politician who had been Majority Leader. As usual, O'Neill had only token G.O.P. opposition in winning his 13th term...
Sister Courage, another monthly that is oriented toward women, is, politically speaking, probably the best Boston-area paper of the three mentioned here. As it enters its second year of publication, Sister Courage, like Equal Times and Sojourner, still isn't a paradigm of skillful, articulate writing, but it concentrates on women's continuing struggle for equality, rather than on helping its readers find comfortable jobs. It, too, however, tends to see change for women as originating only through the efforts of women's movement rather than through a more general effort at reconstructing society...