Word: boys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...using the School Committee as a soap-box and the busing issue as a political whipping boy, former committeewoman and current City Council President Louise Day Hicks is a case in point. For a decade the slogan of this shrill, shrewd, triple-chinned rhetoritician--"The people of Boston know where I stand"--has served as a code-word for one idea and one idea only: no blacks in our schools. Hicks talks a great deal about our children and our schools for a woman who sent all her charges to private and parochial schools, and you will hear more...
SUCH IS THE ACCIDENTAL and chaotic existence of "every poor Gael in this side of the country," as the "old Grey-Fellow," Bonaparte's grandfather, tells the young boy. Largely responsible for Bonaparte's eduction, the Old-Grey-Fellow tries to preserve the ways of the past. "When I was a child growing up," he says, "I was (as is clear to any reader of the good Gaelic books) a child among the ashes." Bonaparte's mother wants to rear her child as a true Gael; she puts back the ashes "and for five hours," Bonaparte writes, "I became...
...EDUCATION. It is reported that penicillin was invented by a laundryman in a dyer's shop. Benjamin Franklin discovered electricity, though he began as a newspaper boy. What learning did Jesus have? . . . It is always those with less learning who overthrow those with more learning...
Whites Threatened. Hardest hit last week was Cape Province, where 15 "coloreds" (as South Africans of mixed blood are known) were killed in a single night by police fire; among the victims was an eight-year-old boy. The incident occurred one day after Prime Minister Vorster had repeated in a speech to his party's faithful that colored people would never sit in South Africa's all-white Parliament. In the city of Paarl, 35 miles from Cape Town, the main business district was closed after hundreds of youths stoned shops and cars and tried to storm...
...pieces: a buffalo hunt, the sacking of a fort. The movie is too glib about Indian spirituality to be good, too self-conscious about being on the Indians' side to be wholly convincing. The Return of a Man Called Horse is no more deeply Indian than the old Boy Scout ceremony of the Order of the Arrow. Kershner, at least, endures his own trial and proves his mettle by keeping the movie from seeming entirely ridiculous...